ABSTRACT
This chapter mainly focuses on resettlement in its own right, although it begins with a brief consideration of custody as a response to young people who have offended. The issue of custody raises some important questions in relation to evidence-based and effective practice as reconviction rates for young people who have experienced a custodial intervention are high. With regard to resettlement, it explores some of the models that have been proposed, all of which stress the importance of continuity of care, smooth transitions between custodial and community-based interventions and maintenance of strong links between a young person and their communities while they are removed from them. It also highlights the consistent failure as shown by evaluation of achieving such continuity through the fracturing that continues to occur for young people when they enter and leave custodial establishments and/or are moved between them.
