The Wiley Handbook on What Works With Girls and Women in Conflict With the Law A Critical Review of Theory, Practice, and Policy

"What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law is a book about imperatives, ideas, and initiatives. Imperatives include the need to recognise women and girls as distinct groups of people mired in criminal justice systems. Ideas and initiatives refer to the extant What Works evidence-base germane to girls and women in conflict with the law. Or more accurately, in the words of Gill McIvor (Chapter 15) due to the nascent nature of the evidence-base, the book details What Might Work to divert girls and women from crime, and what might minimize contact with criminal justice systems that at times, damages rehabilitation efforts. The What Works paradigm strives to achieve two over-arching goals. First, to accumulate research that explores the causes, and ultimately the prevention and re-occurrence of criminal conduct. Second, to translate the aforementioned cumulative knowledge base into practice. Those of us who work within the Wha