Educational Crime Prevention: Ideas, Aarhus, Denmark (From Cooperation Between the School System and the Police Force: The Second International ICRA-Workshop for International Practitioners, Esbjerg, Denmark, February 18-21, 1991, P 12-27 -- See NCJ-136767)

• NCJ Number: 136768
• Author(s): T Andersen; B Laursen
• Date Published: Unknown
• Length: 16 pages
• Sale Source: Rigspolitichefen
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: Denmark

Annotation

In Aarhus, Denmark, the police and the schools cooperate both formally and informally to prevent juvenile delinquency.

Abstract

One project has been to produce and present a crime prevention curriculum for all grades based on initial efforts focusing on students aged 12-14 years. For the younger children, the curriculum focuses on everyday situations that involve rules that people need to associate with one another. For children ages 9-12, the curriculum focuses on what happens when rules are broken. It discusses roads and traffic, shoplifting, thefts from parents, and vandalism. The curriculum for ages 12-14 starts with a video showing shoplifting, burglary, and vandalism and continues with a booklet and discussion of methods of preventing these behaviors and the role of the police, the courts, and other agencies in addressing these situations. For the youths aged 14-16, the curriculum focuses on choices made each day including choices to become involved in criminal behavior. Materials used in the curriculum include an idea pamphlet, an idea folder, a video, a poster, a puzzle, a folder for parents. Measuring the results of this prevention curriculum is difficult, but the teachers have responded positively to it.