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- Title
Mentoring Siblings of Gang Members: A Template for Reaching Families of Gang Members?
- Authors
Medina, Juanjo; Ralphs, Robert; Aldridge, Judith
- 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.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CRIME prevention; SIBLINGS; GANGS; MENTORING; RESEARCH funding; RISK assessment; SOCIAL justice; ETHNOLOGY research; HUMAN services programs
- Publication
Children & Society, 2012, Vol 26, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0951-0605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00307.x