NCJ Number
190798
Date Published
May 2001
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This circular standardizes child-crime-prevention information presented by the Los Angeles Police Department at community crime prevention meetings and elementary school presentations.
Abstract
An important tool for teaching children personal security is to reinforce their trust in the adults who care for them. General advice for increasing children's safety is as follows: inform children they can be safer if they develop good habits and follow some simple rules; encourage children to confide in parents and other significant adults even when the subject is uncomfortable; teach children the difference between "good" strangers and "bad" strangers; and discourage children from keeping secrets from parents when urged to do so by a stranger. Twenty-seven points of information and behaviors children should learn for their safety are listed, and nine rules for parents are provided. Suggestions offered to parents pertain to the marking of a child's clothing for identification, a family safety plan, a safe house community program, whom to call, and an identification file on children.