Peng-Fei Zhang

Beyond Matching Alone: Perceived Meaningfulness as a Complementary Pathway to Effective Juvenile Diversion

The Risk–Need–Responsivity (RNR) model holds that services should match criminogenic needs, but the responsivity principle also contains a rarely examined receiver-side dimension: whether young people experience interventions as meaningful. Using a prospective longitudinal design, we followed 1,204 Chinese adolescents...