Young Crime

INTRODUCTION

We created this blog to increase awareness of the fact that 'young people’s opinions can affect local policing.' The police want to ‘empower young people to come forward and tell the police of the issues they face’. We want to show the effort the police and the government are making to reduce youth crime by improving the lives of young people. Hopefully this will help result in a better relationship between young people & the police.We also want to raise awareness of the reasons why young people turn to crime. Perhaps if we know what causes youths to turn to crime, this information can help parents, teachers, other adults to prevent young people from resorting to crime.

Saturday 30 October 2010

Hello,

As part of our issue we are researching the statistics in different boroughs all over london. For the past week we have been focussing on our local borough, Brent. We have come across an adobe acrobat file explaining what the Borough of Brent are planning to do for Youth Crime.

This involves:

1. To reduce youth offending

2. To reduce re-offending and target persistent and high risk offenders

3. To develop targeted crime prevention and early intervention work

4. To reduce youth victimisation

5. To improve levels of consultation with young people and increase their levels of participation 6. To improve partnership working and co-operation between young people and police

If you wish to see the Youth Crime Reduction Strategy for Brent the link is below.

http://www.brentbrain.org.uk/BRAIN/braincf.nsf/Images/Brent_Youthcrime_reduction_strategy/$file/Brent_Youthcrime_reduction_strategy.pdf

The Young Crime Group