Business of Youth Crime Prevention (From Crime Prevention in Australia: Issues in Policy and Research, P 164-184, 1997, Pat O'Malley and Adam Sutton, eds. -- See NCJ-184267)

• NCJ Number: 184274
• Author(s): Rob White
• Date Published: 1997
• Length: 21 pages
• Sale Source: Federation Press (Distributed by Gaunt)
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Collected Work
• Language: English
• Country: Australia

Annotation

This paper explores various contemporary approaches to youth crime prevention in Australia; the author contends that young people are not currently being subjected to a wide range of special and, at times, competing crime prevention measures.

Abstract

The paper begins by reviewing the portrayal of young people in much contemporary law and order rhetoric and how this view of young people stems from their activities and presence in public places. The next section of the paper outlines major models or perspectives on crime prevention and attempts to clarify basic methods and points of intervention for contemporary crime prevention strategies. The final section of the paper provides a rough guide to the diverse approaches to youth crime prevention in several Australian jurisdictions. Differences and similarities between the approaches are noted, as well as their differential effects on the lives of young people. These effects are discussed in the context of social, economic, and political trends that affect young people. The author concludes that there is no single effective youth crime prevention strategy. Rather, there are many different approaches, each of which has a particular relationship to the wider law and order debate. 31 references