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BJSW Advance Access originally published online on January 24, 2005
British Journal of Social Work 2005 35(2):169-187; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch177
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Promoting Prevention: Targeting Family-Based Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Use and Youth Offending in Swansea

Kevin Haines

Criminology lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Wales Swansea. He specializes in youth justice and probation studies.

Stephen Case

Criminology lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and International Development at the University of Wales Swansea. He specialises in youth crime prevention and youth inclusion policy.

Correspondence to Stephen Case, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Vivian Tower, University of Wales, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP. E-mail: s.p.case{at}swan.ac.uk

The multi-agency, multiple-intervention Promoting Prevention initiative to prevent youth offending in Swansea was evaluated with a computer-based interactive questionnaire with five hundred and eighty young people (aged eleven to eighteen years). Results indicate that multiple exposure to risk factors within the family domain significantly increases the likelihood that a young person will become involved in school exclusion, drug-taking and offending, whilst exposure to multiple protective factors decrease the likelihood of these problem behaviours. The evaluation process indicates that Promoting Prevention’s cross-cutting and consultative methodology is an empowering and engaging way of targeting family-based interventions.

Keywords: Youth, offending, family, risk


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