Week 10 - YOUTH CRIME PREVENTION

Question 1

The key concept of accommodating crime prevention approach is?

Answer 1

‘Ideal types’
TYPOLOGY
1. Coercive institutions - i.e. regulation, rules to enforce
2. Developmental - designed to develop, enhance
3. Commercial - designed to make profit

Question 2

What do you understand by crime

prevention?

Answer 2

• “…many different types of intervention at different
points in the web of the criminal justice system”
(2015, p.308).
• Narrow law and order understanding of crime
prevention
– Use of punishments
• Specific and general deterrence
• Therapeutic understanding of crime prevention
– Rehabilitative treatment

Question 3

– What are the various models of crime
prevention, and which would best
suited to address youth crime?

Answer 3

3 broad models of youth crime prevention:
– Coercive
– Developmental
– Accommodating
– In practice, no organisation uses an exclusively coercive, developmental or accommodating model of crime prevention – combinations with a specific dominance

Question 4

What is the most influential model of crime prevention in this country?

Answer 4

– Pathways to Prevention: Developmental and Early Intervention Approaches to Crime in Australia (1999)
• Developmental Crime Prevention Consortium

Question 5

A successful developmental crime prevention approach will

require:

Answer 5

– Broad social developmental focus
– Constellation of relevant programmes and activities are organised
– Local community ownership
– Holistic approach
– Multi-agency and stakeholder involvement
– Adequate research and auditing processes
– Evaluation
– Flexibility
– Respecting and upholding the hum

Question 6

Should society always try to prevent
every type of crime committed by the
youth within the community?

Answer 6

No, it is a complex issue and relates to the yp’s self expression

Question 7

Causes of crime are complex, so any solution/response must take into account this complexity by:

Answer 7

• “…targeting … multiple risk and protective factors at multiple levels (the individual, the family, the immediate social group, and the larger community) and at multiple life phases and transition points in an individual’s development” (Developmental Crime
Prevention Consortium, 1999, p.100, cited in
Cunneen, White, & Richards, 2015, pp.317-318)

Question 8

– Causes of crime are complex, so any solution/response

must take into account this complexity by:

Answer 8

• “…targeting … multiple risk and protective factors at
multiple levels (the individual, the family, the
immediate social group, and the larger community)
and at multiple life phases and transition points in an
individual’s development” (Developmental Crime
Prevention Consortium, 1999, p.100, cited in
Cunneen, White, & Richards, 2015, pp.317-318)

Question 9

On the hand, protective factors:

Answer 9

– “reduce the impact of an unavoidable negative event;
– help individuals avoid or resist temptations to break the law;
– reduce the chances of people starting on a path likely tolead to breaches of the law; and
promote an alternative pathway” (Cunneen, White, &
Richards, 2015, p. 318)
• Responding to the needs of the individual
• Enhancing familial relationships
• Fostering positive social group activity
• Community building