Understanding criminogenic influences on youth crime
- Project timeframe
- 1 October 2019 - 30 September 2022
- Theme
- Dimensions of inequality
- Amount awarded
- 348,836.75
- Funder ID
- The Nuffield Foundation
Project leader: Prof Stephen Case
This three-year project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, explores how criminogenic (crime-causing) contextual factors influence the effectiveness of preventative interventions on youth offending. The interdisciplinary team is headed by the PI, Professor Stephen Case alongside coinvestigators from Birmingham and Leeds University.
Preventative youth justice interventions can have limited effectiveness as they often overlook and marginalise important contextual influences, such as socio-structural, situational and relational factors. Realist synthesis methods may reveal that interventions work for some young people and not others. This project aims to give insight into ‘what works for whom, in what circumstances, in what respects, and how?’.