Christchurch Youth Drug Court pilot: One-year follow-up study [pdf, 595 KB]
...to a follow-up interview. Several of the young people no longer had active contact numbers or addresses and no other way of being contacted. One young person agreed to an interview but kept failing to show up for appointments and in another case the parents of the young person said that he was doing well and they did not want him interviewed. This level of attrition is common in research with young people. In their study on achieving effective outcomes in youth justice, Maxwell et al (2004)...