Mentoring siblings of gang members: a template for reaching families of gang members?

Medina, J, Ralphs, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8359-2598 and Aldridge, J (2012) Mentoring siblings of gang members: a template for reaching families of gang members? Children and Society, 26 (1). pp. 14-24. ISSN 0951-0605

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00307.x

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.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	07 May 2010 11:05
Publisher:	Wiley
Additional Information:	Published by and copyright Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version of this article is available through the Official URL.
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities Research Centres > Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences
Subject terms:	Crime, Early prevention, Gangs, Mentoring, Youth justice, 1605 Policy and Administration, 1607 Social Work, 1608 Sociology, Social Work
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/98160
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00307.x
ISSN	0951-0605
e-ISSN	1099-0860

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