Sentences with phrase «youth crime»

Strain theory fails to explain violent crime, the type of youth crime that causes most anxiety to the public.

3 - 4 hours of lessons all with a focus on youth crime.

To find out about youth crime prevention programmes in your area, contact your local youth offending team.

There was still more work to do, but we did make significant progress in preventing youth crime.

More importantly is the fact that much youth crime does not have an economic motivation.

Not entirely, but sufficiently to give them greater latitude than would be afforded a politician and a greater emphasis on what actually works to cut youth crime.

It felt quite odd to ring my own local council to ask for examples of initiatives against youth crime.

The rate of drug offences declined in 2005 as did overall youth crime.

All of these above and some others like it are what has propelled the pioneers of Youth Crime Watch of Nigeria to think of possibilities of ensuring that the negative trends are stemmed so that the present youths indeed becomes the real hope of the Nation positively.

[183] Johnson's campaign focused on reducing youth crime, making public transport safer, and replacing the articulated buses with an updated version of the AEC Routemaster.

The BCS will be extended to include «surveys of under - 16s» experiences of crime», while a new youth crime action plan is due out this summer.

In the past, there was a broad perception that the Young Offenders Act, which preceded the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), was not serving to combat youth crime in any meaningful way.

«Young people are the most intensely managed age group in the country, yet they are the least consulted,» points out John Bustin, co-organiser and former manager of Lincolnshire's Youth Crime Prevention Team.

Today he launched the Conservatives» strategy for tackling youth crime, billed as a three - pronged approach.

Steel felt her supplementary question about youth crime was too long, but the incident led to a heated parliamentary debate, and accusations from Lamont's colleague, Labour's Helen Eadie that the Presiding Officer was not treating male and female MSPs equally, an allegation he rejected.

The organization's executive director, Alana Sweeney, said «this Impact Center provides a deterrent to youth crime by providing young people with engaging activities in safe a environment during the evening hours.»

By reaching children at an early age and providing positive activities and encouragement, we offer successful youth development programs that addresses youth crime, gang membership, drugs, and other negative influences that affect our children daily.

We produced research briefings on young fathers (to read this briefing click here) and on fathers and anti-social behaviour (click here), and our chief executive attended the Prime Minister's roundtable on youth crime strategy.

Youth crime went down in recent year s and youth custody levels fell.

The relationship between custody and crime is never simple, but I don't think it's immodest to say that an important factor was the investments Labour made, in money and in effort, to prevent and deter youth crime.

A 43 % reduction in first time youth offenders A 34 % reduction overall in crimes committed by young people And we've also witnessed the closure of some of the youth secure estate because of falling levels of youth crime So prevention is the key.

Turley was formerly a civil servant, initially working on youth crime issues, and later moved to the Department for Work and Pensions specialising in child poverty issues.

Launching their new plans to stem youth crime, the party said prevention will be at the forefront of their policies.

[3] The Conservatives said their campaign focused on issues such as youth crime, but were accused by the Liberal Democrat leader of the council, Brian Gurden, of running a negative campaign.

His robust interventions over youth crime, immigration and Europe have sparked approving noises from mass market newspapers, in particular The Sun (6 million readers); The Daily Mail (5 million); The Daily Telegraph (1.5 million) and The Daily Express (1.5 million).

The YCW program serves nearly 30,000 Miami - Dade County Public School students per school year via youth crime prevention presentations, safety projects, YCW club meetings, assemblies, rallies, and special events.

Contact YCW of Miami - Dade School Coordinators to conduct presentations on bullying / cyberbullying prevention, reporting crimes, school violence prevention and other youth crime prevention topics.

The state consolidated everything related to youth crime under one roof and passed a series of laws during the 2000s to reduce the number of incarcerated adolescents, all without spending additional money.

Polygon reports news of a study mentioned in the New York Times that says it demonstrates the rise in sales of violent videogames does not cause a spike in the rates of violent youth crime.

The House of Commons Justice Committee has called for urgent change in the regime for disclosing youth crime.

Mark Ashford is acknowledged as one of the foremost Youth Crime lawyers in the country.

The Act provides for the diversion of less serious youth crimes and first - time offenders away from the criminal court process.

As the evidence suggests that the incidence of youth crime continues to grow, all those involved with youthful miscreants have some interest in knowing what capacity this possesses for engaging in criminal litigation.

Projects are community based, multi-agency youth crime prevention initiatives which primarily seek to divert young people who have been involved in anti-social and / or criminal behaviour.

We also invite you to connect with us, support our efforts and stay up to date on Youth Crime Watch activities by using our social media links at the top of this page to share our website with your friends, and liking us on Facebook!

Some believe a daytime city curfew for students 17 and under would improve Buffalo Public School attendance and reduce youth crime.

Ministers have today unveiled the government's youth crime action plan, a day after Gordon Brown pledged a crackdown on knife crime.

The Government's «troubled families» scheme has succeeded in preventing youth crime and getting benefit claimants back to work because of a «no - nonsense» approach, says the man behind it.

This release refers to the findings from the «Youth Crime Prevention in Lincolnshire» project funded by Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service and carried out by Sue Bond - Taylor and Peter Somerville at the University of Lincoln.

«Tackling youth crime is complex and there are no magic solutions but I am determined to make London a safer city for everyone, including young people, who are frequently victims of crime,» he added.

«Responding to Youth Crime in Canada», written with Carla Cesaroni, and published by the University of Toronto Press, was released in April 2004.

Danny Kruger has written a defence of the infamous speech (read / watch) about youth crime that he wrote for David Cameron.

CCW is an outgrowth of Youth Crime Watch, which for more than twenty years has enlisted youth in crime reduction efforts in their schools and communities.

Speaking to reporters after a summit on youth crime, Mr Brown vowed to vigorously enforce existing laws, but said the government would consider passing new legislation if required.

The research involved the analysis of 20 case files from Lincolnshire Youth Offending Service's youth crime prevention team and 4 semi-structured interviews with officers from the team.

The absence of fathers in families is clearly linked to higher rates of poverty, youth crime and teenage pregnancy, says the think - tank report.

Recent research at the University of Lincoln found that providing youth services helps prevent youth crime and by engaging young people in shaping their future it has a positive impact on their behaviour.

According to the Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour, it can cost up for # 193,000 per year to hold a young person in a secure training centre.