The 2008 UK government Youth Crime Action Plan emphasises prevention and early intervention in different aspects of work with young people who offend or are considered to be ‘at risk’ of offending. Much of this approach includes targeted work with families and work to reduce the numbers of young people entering the youth justice system.
This report takes a critical look at early intervention policies. Through contributions from leading experts on youth work and criminal justice it considers the development of integrated and targeted youth support services and the implications for practice of early intervention policies; analyses the causes of serious violent crime through consideration of issues that address gangs and guns; provides an evaluation of the government’s early intervention strategy through the examination of its Sure Start programme and other family initiatives; identifies the psychobiological effects of violence on children and links them to problem behaviour; considers the impacts of family intervention projects and parenting work and compares approaches to early intervention across different jurisdictions and examines the lessons for practice in England and Wales.
Sports-based crime prevention programmes are becoming increasingly popular world-wide but until now there has been very little research on the effectiveness of such approaches.
Bringing together authoritative evidence from existing programmes, the authors identify and analyse emerging successful practices. Covering mentoring and coaching, particularly as they relate to Positive Youth Development (PYD) programmes, the authors explore how the development of core life skills can improve individual resilience and decrease the risk of criminal involvement. The book conceptualizes the links between criminological theory and PYD and gives recommendations for future policy and practice.
39 THREE Primary Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Programs for Adolescents and Young Adults Ann L. Coker, Victoria L. Banyard, and Eileen A. Recktenwald Introduction Several recent publications related to violence prevention have highlighted the importance of creating connections across silos in this work. Hamby and Grych (2013) describe empirical support for a web of violence, characterized by research showing that different forms of violence co-occur and many forms of violence share common risk and protective factors. Shared risk and protective
important statements of recent times? If you want to know how wrong we have the idea of prevention, look at German digital bank N26 who found out the hard way after been fined US$5 million over the delayed submission of SARs. In May 2021, N26 was ordered by a regulator to implement safeguards to prevent terror financing and money laundering. N26 was also ordered to close loopholes in their IT monitoring/CDD processes. However, since N26 ran out of time they were hit with penalties. A statement in response to the fine (because there always needs to be a statement
state-sponsored violence(s) along with, for example, female genital mutilation, forced sterilisation, and female infanticide. When set within this larger picture, the enormity of preventing sexual violence becomes apparent. Taking these general observations as a starting point, the purpose of this chapter is to reflect upon the different models of prevention which have been deployed in this field, to consider their strengths and weaknesses and then, by way of illustrating some of these general problems, to focus on one policy intervention introduced recently in
Introduction With this chapter we explore how psychological knowledge and research can be used to inform policing, by helping to reduce the chances of a crime happening in the first place. Unlike criminology, crime prevention is of course not concerned primarily with targeting those who would commit crime, but with working to reduce the number of potential victims of crime by encouraging people to be more security conscious where they are currently not (for example, by routinely locking doors and windows in their home when they are absent) and by
FIvE Prevention of femicide Anna Costanza Baldry and Maria José Magalhães Introduction When referring to ‘prevention of femicide’, we refer to actions at the individual, family, and social and community levels that can reduce the likelihood of women being killed because of their gender. Strategies for prevention of femicide differ depending on the definition of femicide and the cases to which we refer. For example, prevention of femicide in intimate partner relationships is different from prevention of the killing of trafficked women, or girls being
111 seven new understandings for prevention introduction In this book we have explored the way in which policies for children and families in the UK have evolved, considered key concepts that have undermined these developments – in particular social exclusion and prevention – and examined in more detail the implementation of one such policy – the Children’s Fund. This chapter begins by drawing together the evidence described in the preceding chapter with the framework of the dimensions of social exclusion set out in Chapter Two, and reflects on what this
Crime prevention encompasses a number of actions and methods that attempt to address the causes of crime with the intention of reducing crime, victimization and fear and improving community safety (see United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2021 ). Within this definition, crime is often based on consensus theories that define crime as infractions of the law. In addition, the nature of the data collected regarding the extent of the problem, and/or the effectiveness of the solution, is often normative. This positivist approach assumes that official crime and
219 SIX Progressive prevention-promotion The previous chapter set out the principles, practices and progression of the use of diversion within the youth justice arena. We identified ambiguities surrounding the preferred objectives of diversion (for example avoiding contact with the formal youth justice system (YJS), preventing offending, restorative justice, meeting individual needs by facilitating access to youth justice and external services) and highlighted an insidious movement away from the principle of minimum necessary intervention with children
