Found in Transition? Local Inter-Agency Systems for Guiding Young Adults into Better Lives

10 March 2010

Found in Transition? Local Inter-Agency Systems for Guiding Young Adults into Better Lives

Young adults

Open report

What do pilot studies into engaging with young adults to take up services tell us about how young people can avoid involvement in offending? In a sample of 29 case studies, this report tells us that there are improvements associated with reduced reoffending, with participants attributing these to the support and referrals provided by pilot programmes.

Publisher: University of Oxford
Authors: Burnett and Hanley Santos

prison, young adults

Raise the Bars: Co-producing practice guidance with Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller people

This Friends, Families and Travellers report summarises focus groups with 57 Romany, Gypsy and Irish Traveller young adults across 20 prisons, with recommendations for reform based on their experiences.

Criminal Justice, young adults

Behind the decline

This Centre for Crime and Justice Studies report looks at the shrinking young adult population within the criminal justice system who are experiencing increasingly harsher treatment.

May 2026