Negotiating tensions and contradictions in youth crime prevention initiatives in Ireland

2011 ◽  
pp. 150-172
Author(s):  
Fred Powell ◽  
Martin Geoghegan ◽  
Margaret Scanlon ◽  
Katharina Swirak
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
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 Brottsprevention i straffvälfärdspolitikens tid – Samverkanstankens historiska rötter

2019 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Paula Wahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Individualized Treatment ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Expert Rule ◽  
Penal Institutions ◽  
Penal Law ◽  
Post War

AbstractCooperation between authorities is a central part of present-day crime prevention in Sweden. At the same time, the idea of cooperation has an extensive heritage within Swedish welfare policy. The purpose of this article is to trace the trajectory of crime prevention and in particular the idea of cooperation as a crime policy solution. Dating back to the post-war decades, cooperation between authorities in an effort to tackle youth crime has also been in line with David Garland’s concept of penal welfarism. While Garland mainly focuses on penal institutions and penal law rather than prevention, cooperation in Sweden shares several characteristics with penal welfarism such as the optimistic belief in expert rule and individualized treatment. The professional expertise that colonized the field of criminal justice was an equally prominent feature of how schools would prevent crime. Against this background I also discuss whether or not the concept of the preventive turn is applicable to the trajectory of crime prevention in Sweden. My conclusion is that the development of crime prevention is best understood as a continuous process dating back to the post-war era’s focus on youth crime, as opposed to a break.

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