The rhetoric and reality of the 'risk factor prevention paradigm' approach to preventing and reducing youth offending

Youth Justice

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-20

  Haines, Kevin ^a   Case, Stephen ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intervention; Prevention; Protective; Risk; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 40149106303     PISSN: 14732254     EISSN: 17476283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473225407087039     Document Type: Article

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