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Job retention: Employment problems of youth

Job retention: Employment problems of youth AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (JUNE 1988) 21 (67-80) FROM YOUTH TRAINING CENTRES* Hilary Read and Christine Alder! The recurring life pattern for many adolescents in Youth Training Centres (YTCs) is one of wardship, unemployment, offending and institutionalisation. One aspect of current deinstitutionalisation policies is to alter this pattern by developing the employrnent prospects of these young people. Youth workers generally agree that, although they can place youth who have been released from YTCs in employment, these jobs are often not retained. However, to this point, there is little systematic data which either documents the job retention rate of young offenders in employment, or which can be drawn upon to help explain the informally observed low job retention rate. The reasons for the perceived low job retention of youth released from YTCs is the subject of this research. The concern for the development of long term employment possibilities for YTC youth is supported by criminological theory and research which indicate the importance of employment for the integration of young offenders. Youth who leave YTC without employment or who fail to keep their jobs, face the general psychological effects of unemployment including the feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness, loss http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1988
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486588802100202
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AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (JUNE 1988) 21 (67-80) FROM YOUTH TRAINING CENTRES* Hilary Read and Christine Alder! The recurring life pattern for many adolescents in Youth Training Centres (YTCs) is one of wardship, unemployment, offending and institutionalisation. One aspect of current deinstitutionalisation policies is to alter this pattern by developing the employrnent prospects of these young people. Youth workers generally agree that, although they can place youth who have been released from YTCs in employment, these jobs are often not retained. However, to this point, there is little systematic data which either documents the job retention rate of young offenders in employment, or which can be drawn upon to help explain the informally observed low job retention rate. The reasons for the perceived low job retention of youth released from YTCs is the subject of this research. The concern for the development of long term employment possibilities for YTC youth is supported by criminological theory and research which indicate the importance of employment for the integration of young offenders. Youth who leave YTC without employment or who fail to keep their jobs, face the general psychological effects of unemployment including the feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness, loss

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1988

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