Lit Review: Mentoring for Youth Involved in the Justice System
Tue, 09/15/2009 - 09:50
This literature review on mentoring as a strategy for youth involved in the justice system comes from the Commonwealth Corporation of Massachusetts and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It covers the characteristics of effective programs, and program management. It is an overview of existing research, not a program guide or list of recommendations, but it gives a good description of what is known and what needs more study in regards to mentoring as a strategy for serving youth involved in the justice system:
Mentoring for Youth involved in Juvenile Justice Programs: A Review of the Literature, by Ashley N. Clayton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009
http://www.commcorp.org/dys/pdf/MentoringLitReview_FINAL_Feb2009.pdf
Here is another resource related to mentoring for justice system youth: a review/meta-analysis from the UK summarizing 18 studies on mentoring to assess how successful mentoring is in reducing offending and reoffending:
A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Impact of Mentoring on Re-Offending: a Summary, Derick Jolliffe & David P. Rarrington, Nov. 2007
The programs that were most successful when mentors and mentees met at least once a week, and when mentoring was one of a number of interventions:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr1107.pdf
Kay Logan
Center for Inter-Disciplinary Mentoring Research
Portland State University
kay.logan@pdx.edu