A comparison of offending trajectories in violent youth according to violence type

Abstract

The offending trajectories of young people with appetitively violent index offences were indistinguishable from other violent youths. There is thus insufficient information here to recommend distinctive intervention for this subgroup, but their high reoffending rate (7/9) suggests that they are worthy of more research attention. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Evaluating treatment outcomes for young people participating in a high‐intensity therapeutic violence intervention in the English Youth Custody Service

“…Follow‐up of participants considered their continued sanction for violence either within custody or the community. Although the sample sizes are small, the current 2‐year violent recidivism rate of 22% ( N = 2) compares favourably with studies indicating a 70% violence recidivism amongst young people (Ching et al ., ). Outcomes for custodial aggression are also positive, although there continued to be some sanctions for aggression.…”

“…Likewise, Ching et al . () reported that appetitive violent youths did not have a distinct offending trajectory compared with youths convicted of other violence. Rather, recent research has emphasized the importance of intervention addressing the core predictive risk factors for violence (Baglivio & Wolff, ; Miller‐Graff & Howell, ).…”

“…For example, Khachatryan, Heide, Rad, and Hummel () reported youth group homicide has been increasing since the 1980s and in a recent study accounted for half the youth arrests for murder in the United States (Heide, ). Youth violence is generally considered to be diverse in nature, being instrumental, reactive, and appetitive (i.e., motivated by pleasure or excitement) and characterized by recidivism as high as 70% (Ching, Daffern, & Thomas, , ). Within this context, intervention to reduce violent recidivism is clearly valuable.…”

“…For instance, in Khachatryan et al's (2016) longitudinal study of group homicide, recidivism was not distinguishable from youth who had been convicted of homicide as sole offenders. Likewise, Ching et al (2017) reported that appetitive violent youths did not have a distinct offending trajectory compared with youths convicted of other violence. Rather, recent research has emphasized the importance of intervention addressing the core predictive risk factors for violence (Baglivio & Wolff, 2017;Miller-Graff & Howell, 2016).…”