Journal article
On being realistic about reducing the prevalence and impacts of youth sexual violence and abuse in two Australian Indigenous communities
Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts - Special Issue: Evaluation, Vol.14, pp.6-27
2014
Abstract
Social interventions, like medical ones, can produce negative as well as positive outcomes. It is important for policy and practice to learn what works, what doesn't work, and what produces unintended effects, for whom and in what contexts. This is the task of realist evaluation. The formulation and evaluation of programs aiming to deal with problems in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities face a number of practical, conceptual and methodological problems. Here, realist methods for the design and evaluation of promising programs from which transferable lessons can be derived are discussed in the context of an initiative aiming to reduce the prevalence and impacts of youth sexual violence and abuse. Tentative conclusions are drawn for what this might mean for programs targeting similar problems elsewhere.
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- Title
- On being realistic about reducing the prevalence and impacts of youth sexual violence and abuse in two Australian Indigenous communities
- Authors
- Nick Tilley (Author) - University College London, United KingdomSusan Rayment-McHugh (Author) - Griffith UniversityStephen Smallbone (Author) - Griffith UniversityMartina Wardell (Author) - Department of the Prime Minister and CabinetDimity Smith (Author) - Griffith UniversityTroy Allard (Author) - Griffith UniversityRichard Wortley (Author) - University College London, United KingdomDonald Findlater (Author) - Lucy Faithfull Foundation, United KingdomAnna Stewart (Author) - Griffith UniversityRoss Homel (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts - Special Issue: Evaluation, Vol.14, pp.6-27
- Publisher
- Charles Darwin University
- Date published
- 2014
- DOI
- 10.18793/LCJ2014.14.02
- ISSN
- 1329-1440; 1329-1440
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2014. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451447902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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