Crime prevention and young people: Models and future direction for youth night patrols

Title
Crime prevention and young people: Models and future direction for youth night patrols
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Cooper, Trudi
Scott, John
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-9425
Email: jscott6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jscott6
Barclay, Elaine
Sims, Margaret
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-4245
Email: msims7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:msims7
Love, Terence
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1057/s41300-016-0009-9
UNE publication id
une:20988
Abstract
This article presents a typology of different approaches to social crime prevention adopted by Australian Indigenous youth night patrols. Research that informed this typology occurred in a specific context, but generic observations about youth crime prevention policy are transferable to community youth crime prevention in other settings. The typology identifies several key points of difference between various service delivery models, in particular, different perceptions of relationships between crime prevention; community safety; community development; community self-determination; child protection; and youth development and welfare. Discussion teases out how political discourse frames concepts such as community governance, self-determination, paternalism, and funding accountability. The discussion illustrates how politicised decision-making has meant that policy makers responded selectively to programme evaluations, in ways that did not always maximise benefit. The typology is intended to be useful to youth crime prevention practitioners, evaluators, and policy makers.
Link
Citation
Crime Prevention & Community Safety, 18(4), p. 266-283
ISSN
1743-4629
1460-3780
Start page
266
End page
283

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