an article by Juanjo Medina, Robert Ralphs and Judith Aldridge (School of Law, University of Manchester) published in Children & Society Volume 26 Issue 1 (January 2012)
Abstract
Mentoring has become a popular model of intervention to reduce the risk of offending, and has been proposed as an effective tool to tackle the risk of gang membership. This paper reviews the existing literature on mentoring and reports on a qualitative evaluation of a mentoring programme targeted at young people ‘at risk’ of gang membership in an English city.
The study highlights important issues around these interventions.
Although we found it a useful way to engage otherwise hard-to-reach families, important limitations remain: their potential labelling impact and their limited impact in isolation from other more ambitious measures.
Hazel’s comment;
This article, indeed the whole journal, looks at the interaction of young people with society and society's interaction with them. The question that this particular article raises for me is how it is possible to turn round the lifestyles displayed in these hard-to-reach families when there are so few opportunities for anything else in the more deprived areas of the country. Careers advice is not an option for these youngsters.
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