Table 1.

Search terms used.

Adolescence	Juvenile offender
Adolescent	Juvenile offenders
Adolescent fathers	Juvenile probation
Adolescent parents	Male
Adolescents	Offend
Child	Offender
Children	Offenders
Children of incarcerated offenders	Parent
Children of prisoners	Parent training
Correctional institutions	Parenthood
Crime	Parenting
Detention	Parenting interventions
Education	Parents
Family intervention	Paternity
Father	Pregnancy
Father child relation	Prison
Fathers	Prisoner
Imprisonment	Prisoners
Incarceration	Prisoners/education
Intervention-programmes	Prisons
Juvenile delinquency	Teenage fathers
Juvenile delinquent	Young offender
Juvenile delinquents	Young offenders
Juvenile inmates	Young people
Juvenile justice	Youth

Construction of search statements

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  Three concepts were identified for searching purposes: fatherhood, offending; and training
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  Search statements were constructed by combining terms concerning one concept such as ‘fatherhood’, using the Boolean operator ‘OR’.
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  groups of terms were then combined using the Boolean operator ‘AND’.

Example of a search statement

“Father” OR “Fathers” OR “Father child relation*” OR “Parent*” OR “Parenthood” AND “Juvenile delinquency” OR “Juvenile delinquent*” OR “young offender*” AND “Education”OR “Family intervention” OR “Intervention* OR “Parent training”.