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Understanding how to identify an evidence-based crime prevention program, how to ensure it's a good fit with the specific population and the organization, how to implement it, and how to sustain it, are critical elements for practitioners as well as for policymakers.
- Youth inclusion programmes
- Youth inclusion and support panels
These are for young people aged 8 to 17 years and usually last for set lengths of time, such as 6 months. Sometimes a young person can attend for longer if they need to, if they find the activities helpful.
These panels are made up of people like local youth or social workers. Panels work with young people aged 8 to 13 years to make sure they get access to local services that will help them stay out of trouble. These services could be things like getting extra help at school, or treatment for health or mental health problems.
Both these programmes use something called an ‘intervention plan’ that everyone must agree on, including the young person and their family. This plan describes what the young person is expected to do, as well as what support the young person will get.
We conclude that programs like ‘Scared Straight’ are likely to have a harmful effect and increase delinquency relative to doing nothing at all to the same youths. Given these results, we cannot recommend this program as a crime prevention strategy.
- Anthony Petrosino, Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, Meghan E. Hollis-Peel, Julia G. Lavenberg
- 2013
Jan 1, 2020 · Crime Prevention is the anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk, and the initiation of action to remove or reduce it. Crime Prevention is an active approach utilizing public awareness and preventive measures to reduce crime.
- Lawrence J. Fennelly
- 2020
Mar 17, 2017 · This article reviews the role that theory plays in modern day crime prevention, with a special focus on the three main crime prevention strategies: developmental, community, and situational.
This article introduces crime prevention, which often refers to the attempts to prevent crime or criminal offending before the actual act has been committed. It studies four main crime prevention strategies, namely developmental prevention, community prevention, situational prevention, and criminal justice prevention.
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Through a step-by-step approach, this document seeks to facilitate and guide the selection of an effective crime prevention program and to provide advice for program implementation and sustainability.
