Milton Keynes Youth Crime Reduction Project

• NCJ Number: 181423
• Author(s): Alan Mackie; John Burrows
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 4 pages
• Corporate Author: Great Britain Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate
• Sale Source: Great Britain Home Office
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom
• Note: Research Findings No. 108

Annotation

This report evaluates an English youth crime reduction project after 2 years in operation.

Abstract

The Milton Keynes Youth Crime Reduction Project is an inter-agency program for 5- to 19-year-olds, aimed at reducing levels of offending and reoffending and at fostering a greater sense of the consequences of offending. The program has three linked components: (1) the primary stage, designed to promote personal responsibility and citizenship among schoolchildren; (2) the secondary stage, dealing with young people who are not in school; and (3) the tertiary stage, aimed at young people who have come into contact with the criminal justice system and their parents (mediation, reparation, voluntary education, and a parent support group). The critical innovative feature of the Youth Crime Reduction Project (YCRP) is its holistic nature. However, despite the rhetorical references to the comprehensive nature of the project, at the 2-year point it was unclear how these discrete initiatives should or could interrelate in practice. One of the main challenges for the final year of the project was to bring together the various strands of the program.