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.

We have just had a comment:

'What has inspired us to choose this issue?' Joe

Answer:

Before we picked our issue for our BBC School Report a police officer from our local police station came to visit our school for an assembly for the whole school. During this assembly, we discovered that all the questions asked by students in our school were negative. It seemed to us that this issue was looked upon in a very negative aspect from young people our age and, that they weren't convinced that the police and government were doing enough for this issue. This was part of the reason why we chose to pick this issue- because we wanted to show people that this issue is important and that we do want to make a difference.

Also, thanks to recent events in the media inspired us to choose this issue. There was a specific case- The Edlington Brothers case. This case showed us how horrific some cases of Youth Crime are and showed us that some young people suffer terrible consequences for Youth Crime. We wanted to raise awareness and tell people how to stay safe and how to prevent it.

We hope this has answered your question.

The Young Crime Group