featuring

Professor Neal Hazel

Member of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

and

Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Salford

What really makes the difference to whether a child or young adult reoffends? What are the key characteristics of effctive support?

This free online seminar provides an opportunity to explore contemporary research understandings of ‘what works’ with children and young adults in criminal justice, and to consider what it means for our own practice. 

“Constructive Working” is the framework that turns these research messages into practice to develop ‘pro-social identity’ for desistance.  It has been adopted as the ‘theory of change’ both for the Youth Custody Service and in the Child First guiding principle for youth justice.  The Justice Select Committee has called for prison and probation services working with young adults to reflect this approach by 2030.

The session is presented by Professor Neal Hazel, who led the development of Constructive Working (and Constructive Resettlement).  During his talk, Neal will discuss the 5Cs of effective support, the importance of ‘identity awareness’, and examples of how the framework has been adopted in prisons, probation and youth justice services.

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