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SynthesisInternational journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology2026

Letting Work What Works-Effectively Preventing Juvenile Delinquency in the Netherlands: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence.

Puck Meulen, Naomi Koning, Mark Assink, Susan van Hooren, Emile Kolthoff, Evelyn Heynen

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Synthesis in International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Puck MeulenOpen University of The Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0009-0000-9440-5065
Naomi KoningUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8698-6023
Mark AssinkUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2235-6548
Susan van HoorenOpen University of The Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1894-702X
Emile KolthoffOpen University of The Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Evelyn HeynenOpen University of The Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4969-8986

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This meta-analysis evaluated judicial interventions for juvenile delinquency certified by the Netherlands Youth Institute with "initial indications" for effectiveness. Ten (quasi-)experimental studies examining TOOLS4U, Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), Multi Systemic Therapy (MST), Only You Decide who you Are (OYD), Responsive Social Skills Therapy (Re-SST), and Responsive Aggression Regulation Therapy (Re-ART) were synthesized. The overall effect was small, positive, and significant (

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Juvenile DelinquencyAdolescentCognitive Behavioral TherapyFamily TherapyHumansNetherlandsevidence-basedjuvenile delinquencymeta-analysispreventionyouth interventions

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PMID40817762
PMCPMC12916857

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