Research Project: The Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Interventions on Young People
Dates: July 2008 - September 2010
The research aims to ...
- identify the extent to which anti-social behaviour related measures promote resilience and/or desistance, and foster compliance
- identify the trajectories that young people take into, through, and away from, youth justice via anti-social behaviour interventions.
The study will seek to map the use, and assess the impact, of interventions. The study will also address the following questions.
- To what extent do specific ASB interventions help foster compliance and address behaviour-related problems among young people?
- How do interventions best halt the escalation of behavioural problems with different groups of young people and at different stages of development?
- Through what combinations of enforcement, prevention and support do interventions work best?
The research will focus on five case study sites in London, the Midlands and the North of England.
It will collect data over a two year period between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2010 on young people subject to a formal warning, an acceptable behaviour contract and/or an anti-social behaviour order. Attention will also be paid to the prevention and family-based work undertaken with this group. In all areas, the research will collect both quantitative and qualitative data.
The research is being overseen and supported by an Advisory Board with representation from the Youth Taskforce, the Youth Justice Board, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Metropolitan Police, the Legal Services Commission, the Social Landlords Crime and Nuisance Group, the National Youth Agency; the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, the Runnymede Trust and academic researchers.