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Community-Based Training Programmes For Young Offenders: Perceptions of Programme Impact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Ivor D. Shorts
Ivor D. Shorts*
Affiliation:
Clinical Psychologist, Forensic Psychiatric Service, Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum, Dublin 14
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Abstract

This paper presents the programme perceptions of male young offenders involved in 2 Dublin community training workshops. Most of the sample indicated that they perceived their training to have had an overall positive impact (ranging from a moderate to a very substantial extent) in various areas of skills and personal development. Those emerging with a higher level of self-confidence, predictably, had also perceived themselves to have benefited more in almost all areas. Ambivalent predictions of the sample in respect of their future employment and re-offending tended to be associated with fewer perceived programme benefits, than were optimistic predictions.

Keywords

Community-based programmesimpact perceptionsself-predictionsjuvenile delinquency
Type
Original Article
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 26 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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