Problematising Advanced Liberal Youth Crime Prevention: The Impacts of Management Reforms on Irish Garda Youth Diversion Projects

Youth Justice ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Swirak
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Youth Diversion ◽  
Youth Crime Prevention

scholarly journals ‘It’s a No-Win Scenario, either the Police or the Gang Will Get You’: Young People and Organised Crime – Vulnerable or Criminal?

Youth Justice ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-119
Author(s):  
Naomi Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Criminal Groups ◽  
Youth Crime Prevention

The Serious and Organised Crime Strategy for England and Wales made a commitment to develop preventive educational resources for use with young people on the topic of organised crime. This article presents findings from a UK Home Office funded project, which was aimed at developing and subsequently evaluating these resources, and explores their wider implications for youth crime prevention policy within the United Kingdom and internationally. Based on interviews with youth practitioners and young people, the project found that many young people with vulnerabilities (such as learning difficulties) were in turn vulnerable to exploitation by criminal groups, that the reasons for young people becoming involved in organised crime were complex including a desire to provide for their families in a climate of austerity and unemployment and that positive relationships with professionals and long-term support were significant for youth crime prevention.

scholarly journals Local Crime Prevention: ‘Breathing Life (Back) into Social Democratic and Penal Welfare Concerns’?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garner Clancey
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Education ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Exercise Program ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Diversion Program ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Youth Diversion ◽  
Causes Of Crime

Fieldwork in the inner-Sydney postcode area of Glebe (New South Wales, Australia) sought to understand how local community workers conceptualise crime causation and the approaches adopted to prevent crime. Observation of more than 30 inter-agency meetings, 15 interviews and two focus groups with diverse local workers revealed that social-welfare or ‘root’ causes of crime were central to explanations of local crime. Numerous crime prevention measures in the area respond directly to these understandings of crime (a youth diversion program on Friday and Saturday evenings, an alternative education program, a police-youth exercise program, and so on). While other more surveillant forms of crime prevention were evident, the findings of this research suggest a significant social-welfare orientation to crime prevention. These findings echo Brown’s (2012) observations of the resilience of penal-welfarism in Australia.

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