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.
