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. 2024 Apr;25(2):1036-1052.
doi: 10.1177/15248380231171183. Epub 2023 May 12.

Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Justice-Involved Young Women: A Scoping Review

Melissa Willoughby  1   2 , Emilia Janca  1   3 , Sohee Kwon  1 , Bianca Johnston  4 , Tamlynn Collins  1   4 , Stuart A Kinner  1   2   3   5 , Diana Johns  1 , David Gallant  1 , Clare Glover-Wright  1 , Rohan Borschmann  1   2   6
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Interventions to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Justice-Involved Young Women: A Scoping Review

Melissa Willoughby et al. Trauma Violence Abuse. 2024 Apr.

Abstract

Young women who have had contact with the criminal justice system (justice-involved young women) have an increased risk of being a victim of violence. However, no reviews have synthesized the evidence on interventions to prevent or respond to violence against justice-involved young women. We conducted a scoping review to identify interventions designed to prevent or respond to violence against justice-involved young women. We searched Medline, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Web of Science, and Google Scholar for peer-reviewed and gray literature published in English from January 1, 2000 until March 23, 2021. Consistent with the public health approach to violence, we included primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions. Excluding duplicates, our search returned 5,603 records, 14 of which met our inclusion criteria. We narratively synthesized the included studies, all of which were conducted in the United States. Most included studies examined a tertiary intervention (n = 10), and few examined a primary (n = 2) or secondary (n = 2) intervention. Across the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tools, the percentage of items met ranged from 0% to 78%. There was some limited evidence that tertiary interventions that included cognitive behavioral therapy reduced the mental health impacts of violence victimization among justice-involved young women. There was little evidence on primary and secondary interventions. Effective and evidence-based interventions to prevent violence victimization and revictimization against justice-involved young women remains a critical gap in knowledge.

Keywords: domestic violence; intervention/treatment; mental health and violence; violence exposure.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Bianca Johnston and Tamlynn Collins are employed by the Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS), who is also a funder.

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