TY - JOUR
T1 - A Tailored Approach for Justice Involved Youth With an Intellectual Disability
T2 - The Suitability of a Small-Scale Community-Integrated Approach
AU - Meijer, Julia J.
AU - Souverein, Fleur
AU - Collot d’Escury, Annematt M.
AU - de Heide, Bram W. F.
AU - Koopman, Laura A. C. M.
AU - van Domburgh, Lieke
AU - Mulder, Eva
N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Ministry of Justice and Security (the Hague, the Netherlands). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Youngsters with intellectual disabilities are overinvolved within the youth justice system. The aim of this study was to explore the suitability of a small-scale community-integrated approach for justice involved youngsters with intellectual disabilities. This study compared the numbers of transfers, the number, type, and rate of change in incidents, and the possible mediating effect of resilience thereon, between 40 youngsters with and 19 youngsters without intellectual disabilities, placed in a small-scale facility. There were no differences in the number of transfers, the number, type, and rate of change in incidents, and no mediating effect of resilience was found. A small-scale community integrated approach for youth justice facilities can be suited to provide tailored placement for youngsters with intellectual disabilities, given the presence of protective factors and motivation. Both youngsters with and without intellectual disabilities showed a low number of incidents and were able to continue or initiate structural daytime activities.
AB - Youngsters with intellectual disabilities are overinvolved within the youth justice system. The aim of this study was to explore the suitability of a small-scale community-integrated approach for justice involved youngsters with intellectual disabilities. This study compared the numbers of transfers, the number, type, and rate of change in incidents, and the possible mediating effect of resilience thereon, between 40 youngsters with and 19 youngsters without intellectual disabilities, placed in a small-scale facility. There were no differences in the number of transfers, the number, type, and rate of change in incidents, and no mediating effect of resilience was found. A small-scale community integrated approach for youth justice facilities can be suited to provide tailored placement for youngsters with intellectual disabilities, given the presence of protective factors and motivation. Both youngsters with and without intellectual disabilities showed a low number of incidents and were able to continue or initiate structural daytime activities.
KW - community-integrated
KW - justice involved youth
KW - mild-to-borderline intellectual disabilities
KW - smallscale
KW - tailored placement
KW - youth justice facilities
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36892009
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X231159875
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X231159875
M3 - Article
C2 - 36892009
SN - 0306-624X
JO - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
JF - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
ER -