{"id":1247,"date":"2020-03-13T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-stop\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2020-03-13T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T17:50:56","slug":"application-of-the-good-lives-model-to-street-gang-membership-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/application-of-the-good-lives-model-to-street-gang-membership-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Application of the Good Lives Model to street gang membership"},"content":{"rendered":"

About\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Good Lives Model (GLM; Ward, 2002) is a holistic and strengths-based approach to offender rehabilitation. It assumes that all humans have overarching needs that they have to fulfil to have a meaningful life.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Offending occurs in an attempt to meet these needs when experiencing personal difficulties (e.g., internalised prejudice, emotional\/mental health issues, and impulsivity) and disadvantaged environments (i.e., antisocial peers, marginalisation, and unemployment). <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The GLM has not previously been examined to street gang membership, so to assess this, this research involves interviewing incarcerated street gang members.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The findings have important implications for governmental policies and social management.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Research objectives<\/h3>\n

\u2022 Examine the applicability of the GLM to street gang members<\/p>\n

\u2022 Identify which overarching needs <\/span>individuals\u2019<\/span> are trying to fulfil through their street gang membership<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Assess factors increasing risk of joining a street gang (including internalised\/external prejudice<\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Impact\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2022 GLM consistent interventions assist individuals in achieving a meaningful and fulfilling life (without relying on offending behavior), by helping overcome any internal or external difficulties. This would include reducing any internalised prejudice.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ra<\/span>ther than seeing offenders as a bundle of risk factors, the GLM emphasises that offenders have the same needs as everyone (including non-offenders). This aids in reducing any overt or covert prejudices that practitioners may have (Ward, Gannon, & <\/span>Birgden<\/span>, 2007).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About\u00a0\u00a0 The Good Lives Model (GLM; Ward, 2002) is a holistic and strengths-based approach to offender rehabilitation. It assumes that all humans have overarching needs that they have to fulfil to have a meaningful life.\u00a0\u00a0 Offending occurs in an attempt to meet these needs when experiencing personal difficulties (e.g., internalised prejudice, emotional\/mental health issues, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prejudice-gangs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/stop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}