Juvenile Crime Prevention Research Articles

Police encounters with juveniles revisited

Examines the extent to which community‐oriented police officers (COP) differ from regular patrol officers in their view of their role in the response to juveniles and in style and intensity of interaction. Based on qualitative field research in a densely populated Southeastern city, initial findings suggest that while COPs devote equal attention to traditional police functions (e.g. law enforcement), they adopt different styles of carrying out these functions (e.g. proactive problem solving). In addition, COP officers more routinely practice juvenile crime prevention, monitoring and diversion and clearly articulate these functions as core components of their role orientation. Questions for future research include the extent to which the new more intimate relationship between police and juveniles in COP areas will increase arrests or promote diversion, whether increased discretion will result in increased harassment or improved informal dispute resolution, and whether officers practicing effective diversion and advocacy will be encouraged to continue or see their efforts undercut by competing departmental priorities or by bureaucratic policies that increase formal processing.

Juvenile Crime Prevention in Hong Kong: A Community Care Approach

Victimisation prevention seems to dominate the crime preventing strategies in Hong Kong. These strategies can enhance the social functioning of an individual. A new community care model, which focuses on promoting the relationship of adults and teenagers and emphasises delabelling, is suggested.

Pedagogiškai apleisti paaugliai

Straipsnyje prieštaraujama pedagogų diskusijose vis pasigirstančiai nuomonei, kad neverta eikvoti jėgų dirbant su sunkiai auklėjamais paaugliais, kad nepilnamečių nusikalstamumo prevencija turėtų rūpintis ne pedagogai, o policininkai. Pažymima, kad šiandieniniai nusikalstamo elgesio jaunuoliai, pikti, agresyvūs arba vangūs, nematą perspektyvos gyvenime, - tai vakarykščiai pedagogiškai apleisti paaugliai ir nei šeima, nei mokykla neturėtų vengti atsakomybės. Norint sukurti veiksmingą metodiką pedagoginiam ir socialiniam apleistumui įveikti, svarbus yra šio reiškinio pažinimas. Straipsnyje pristatomi empiriniai Kauno mieste atlikti pedagogiškai apleistų paauglių tyrimai. 1988 m. atliktas tyrimas labiau konstatuojamojo pobūdžio. Buvo siekiama nustatyti išorinius pedagoginį apleistumą sąlygojančius veiksnius. 1988 - 1989 m. buvo atliktas kitas tyrimas „Pedagoginis apleistumas ir jo įveikimas bendradarbiaujant mokyklai, šeimai, visuomenei”. Šio tyrimo metu siekta patikslinti išorinius veiksnius ir nustatyti vidines priežastis, formuojančias pedagoginį apleistumą ir parengti pedagoginio apleistumo įveikos metodiką.

Neighborhood Education, Mobilization, and Organization for Juvenile Crime Prevention

From 1981 to 1986, a federally sponsored research and development program to prevent violent juvenile crime was implemented through neighborhood-based organizations in the Bronx, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and San Diego. Its goal was to reduce such crime in specific locations through resident mobilization to strengthen neighborhood cohesion and make local institutions more responsive. A conceptual framework was based on social control and learning theories. Each local version of the program involved an ongoing needs assessment through which neighborhood resident councils planned and revised their efforts. Each local program was required to include violent-crisis intervention, mediation, family support networking, and youth skills development. After 36 months of planning and implementation, serious juvenile crime decreased in three of the six target neighborhoods, compared to their respective cities. Most of the programs developed means of financial support to carry on all or part of the effort after federal funding ended. Community-led programs that emphasize advocacy and institutional mediation appear to be more effective than traditional social services in mobilizing residents to prevent juvenile crime and violence.

Juvenile Aid Bureau: The Control and Prevention of Juvenile Crime

Juvenile Aid Bureau: The Control and Prevention of Juvenile Crime

Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency and Crime in Austria

Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency and Crime in Austria

The Child under Soviet Law

MPHASIZING the importance of the family unit, Soviet legal circles are now centering their attention on laws preserving the home. Gone are the years when theoreticians argued that the family was a superannuated form of social organization, and that the child in a socialist society should be maintained and educated in mass institutions. Although political considerations may have called for such a policy in the early period of the Russian revolution due to the need of quickly overcoming the conservative influence of parents long steeped in discarded traditions, no longer does any one broach such a proposition. Today's policy of child protection and the prevention of juvenile crime is directed towards the strengthening of those organizations best fitted for the care of children. Emphasis is being laid upon the family unit, guardianship, the school, and manual labor for those children not fitted to continue in the schoolroom after the early stages. The comparatively few children who do not react to these methods of approach and become delinquents may now be held accountable under the criminal codes which have been recently revised to conform with the policy of today. Statistics studied by the Institute of Criminal Politics in Moscow' have pointed up the situation so that all may see the need for the reforms of 1935 and I936 in the field of family and criminal law. Of the I,OOi juvenile delinquents studied in Leningrad in I934 and I935, 90% spent their leisure time in an unorganized way outside the family, while only 7% of the offenders spent their recreation hours within the family circle. The remaining 3% played in parks and playgrounds in an organized way during their unoccupied moments. The 2,111 cases examined in Moscow during the same period showed a similar situation. Of this group 88% spent their leisure in an unorganized way outside the home, while 7.7% spent their free time with the family. The balance played in an organized way in parks and playgrounds. Of the group which remained in the home during leisure hours, 46% came from families where the mother and father were both employed. Grandmothers, older children or housemaids were left in charge.

Juvenile Delinquency and Crime Prevention

Juvenile Delinquency and Crime Prevention

The Prevention of Juvenile Crime

The Prevention of Juvenile Crime

Prevention of Juvenile Crime

Prevention of Juvenile Crime