The Relationship Between School and Youth Offending

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Research Article: The Relationship between school and youth offending. 1. To determine if and how the school system in NZ influences young offenders. 2. No it didn’t have a literature review. 3. It was mixed method because it asked participants how they felt, also looked at numbers and percentages of young people in New Zealand youth imprisonment facilities. 4. The sample was based on individual interviews with 25 youths from one residential youth justice facility, through conversations and sharing of stories about their primary and high school experiences all participants volunteered their time and interviews finished at their own request. 5. During the interviews with participants the researcher wanted to encourage a sense of choice and reduce leading direction so a selection of memory-jogging cards based on school-related topics were presented to each person who could then choose to use them or not, they were allowed to speak about their school experience at random if they wished. 6. The interviews conducted were with a small group from one justice facility which represented a wider group of youths in other youth justice facilities, this is cluster sampling. There was stratified sampling as well being that only youths were allowed into these facilities, the age group selected were between the ages of 14 and 17 years old. The advantages for cluster are getting results quicker and a broader perspective, the disadvantages are that it’s not accurate towards the youth imprisonment population and could jeopardise privacy leading to identification by other people as it is only from one facility. Stratified sampling meant the specified age group was appropriate for this research and made the interviews findings relevant to the topic and reliable, the disadvantages for this was there were no comparison towards other offenders in a higher age

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