The goals of this report from Jeffrey Butts are to introduce and explain the Positive Youth Justice Model by:
- Briefly reviewing the research literature about adolescent development and youth justice intervention
- Identifying key theoretical and empirical findings that are supportive of a positive youth development framework
- Exploring how youth justice practitioners use positive youth development concepts to build interventions for young offenders
- Examining the array of concepts related to positive youth development and reducing them to a smaller more workable set of key components that could be applied in justice settings
- Considering how the PYJM could be used to design interventions and create outcome measures for youth justice agencies
“Positive Youth Justice Model” Report
* This article and framework serves as the basis for the JJC sponsored training on June 27th, 2011. Registration for that training is now open – see “Information” under the home page link “JJC Training Opportunities” or follow this link: http://community.jjcmn.com/training-events?eventId=324346&EventViewMode=EventDetails