Boot camps for young offenders are back – the psychological evidence they don’t work never went away
- Written by: Simon Davies, Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Getty Images“Boot camps” for young people who commit serious offending are coming back. The coalition government has promised to pilot “military-style academies” by the middle of the year – despite a wealth of international and New Zealand evidence that boot camps do not reduce reoffending.
It has been encouraging to...
