TY - JOUR TI - The Concept of Working with Juveniles in Local Community: Activities and Interactions Based on Evidence-Based Practice in Attendance Centres AU - Dzierzyńska-Breś, Sonia AU - Matkowski, Sylwester TI - The Concept of Working with Juveniles in Local Community: Activities and Interactions Based on Evidence-Based Practice in Attendance Centres AB - This article is based on the experiences of attendance centres in Poland. These centres, provide services to at-risk and delinquent youth in local community centres largely staffed by probation officers and volunteers who are well-versed in evidence-based concepts and practices. The primary concept that underpins these centres is to focus on socializing risk youth and juvenile delinquents in communities in which they live. The presumption is that factors related to dysfunctional social environments foster social maladjustment, which in turn, support risk factors that lead to juvenile delinquency. The services and experiences of at-risk youth and adjudicated delinquents in community-based centres appear, at least initially, to decrease individual juvenile delinquency. As well, the programs and services provided establish and support protective factors that mitigate dysfunctional social environmental factors, thereby serving an important delinquency function. VL - VI (2020) IS - Numer 6 PY - 2020 SN - 2450-4572 C1 - 2450-4564 SP - 251 EP - 266 DO - 10.4467/24504564PMP.20.015.12249 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/polska-mysl-pedagogiczna/artykul/the-concept-of-working-with-juveniles-in-local-community-activities-and-interactions-based-on-evidence-based-practice-in-attendance-centres KW - evidence-based KW - attendance centre KW - delinquency KW - at-risk youth KW - community-based corrections