keeping children away from crime: early prevention as a method for social inclusion
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Keeping children away from crime: Early prevention as a method for
social inclusion
Sanita Sīle, PROVIDUS researcher Vilnius, June 26-27 2014
Participation in conference is financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway in framework of NGO Activity Support Measure. NGO Activity Support Measure is financed with financial support from EEA Financial Mechanism and Republic of Latvia.
Children and crime
Number of convicted juveniles in Latvia
Statistics: Judicial informative system
“Early prevention” refers to a series of actions which aim at
creating an environment that deters children from persistent
disruptive behaviour and early-onset delinquency. By involving
the entire society and implementing specific actions (lawful and
socially useful), we can ensure that the personal development of
children is as harmonious and as free from crime as possible.
International Juvenile Justice Observatory
Early prevention
Why it should be done?
How can it be done?
Where and by whom it should be done?
Early prevention / Social inclusion
The aspect of costs
If the programme costs are lower than the expenditures for the
damage caused by the crime and compensations it is worth to
continue financing the programme.
The aspect of costs
The aspect of costs
In the last years a decrease in age of juvenile delinquents and
children with antisocial behaviour is observed in Europe.
The earlier is the age at which the child commits the first antisocial deeds, the higher is the possibility of the development of such
behavioural model in future – an early-starters model.
Another group includes children who do not show elements of antisocial behaviour or such behaviour until adolescence but then the situation
changes rapidly (late onset model).
Educational institutions and family have to be able to recognise antisocial behaviour risks in due time and choose an adequate prevention method
for them.
Early prevention
Application of prevention measures for children at their adolescence is a battle against the effects and consequences and prevention
methods are more suitable for identifying and averting the causes.
Successful prevention of antisocial behavior in the work with children at a young age decreases the necessity of crime
prevention in later years of children and youth development.
Early prevention
Early prevention
Early prevention
The following factors are identified as risk factors:
• individual risks (early antisocial behaviour, poor cognitive development, hyperactivity
and other emotional stability factors);
• family risk factors (poor relations between the parents and children, poverty,
maltreatment, violence, divorce, parental psychopathology, familial antisocial behaviours,
teenage parenthood, single parent family and large family size);
• friends from risk groups (friends with antisocial behaviour; peer rejection);
• school and community risk factors (failure to bond to school, poor academic
performance, neighbourhood disadvantage, disorganized neighbourhoods, easy access to
drugs and toxic substances).
The risk factors
The following protective factors are opposed with the above mentioned risk
factors:
• regular school (preschool) attendance;
• motivation to learn, acquire new skills, participation in extra curriculum
activities;
• positive attitude about the world in general;
• ability to discuss problems with parents and family;
• positive adult example.
Antisocial behaviour prevention and interventions are applied to reduce risk
factors and activate protective factors
The protective factors
Building a Support System to Prevent Juvenile Delinquency
Duration: 01.01.2011.-30.06.2012.
Practical experience I
Keeping Youth Away from Crime: Searching for Best
European Practices Duration: 07.01.2013.-06.01.2015.
Practical experience II
Reducing youth at risk numbers:
modeling early childhood intervention approaches Duration: 01.11.2013.-31.10.2015.
Practical experience III
Criminal justice prevention a set of methods which the law enforcement agencies work with.
Situational prevention
set of activities in order to reduce the opportunities for antisocial behaviour and prevent it.
Community prevention has a task to achieve changes in the social conditions and institutions that can influence the
environment (community) in which antisocial behaviour is or can be performed
Developmental prevention refers to the inhibition of the development of antisocial behaviour in individuals, using
prevention methods to target risk factors that can influence further human development.
Early prevention
The main conclusions
Thank you for your attention!
Sanita Sīle
sanita.sile@providus.lv
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