NCJ Number
161588
Date Published
1994
Length
39 pages
Annotation
This report describes how a comprehensive youth crime prevention program minimized risk factors and fostered resiliency among youth involved with the juvenile justice system; it draws lessons from the implementation of Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC).
Abstract
TCC's primary goals are to reduce teen victimization by crime and to engage youth in crime prevention in their schools and communities. The TCC framework includes two components: a curriculum unit and action projects. The curriculum unit can be taught in a variety of settings and explores the nature of crime and its impact on the individual and community, the concept of crime prevention, techniques for preventing various kinds of crime especially relevant to youth, and an examination of the criminal and juvenile justice process. Action projects derive from the curriculum or related efforts. Youth participants assume responsibility for analyzing needs of a community or population, designing a project to address those needs, and carrying out the design. In five settings, TCC effectively met the needs of youth, institutions, and communities. This monograph reviews the history, shares results from evaluations of TCC in these settings, and explains how these results were achieved. In addition, it provides the reader a basic road map for possible implementation of TCC in juvenile justice settings. Throughout the text, examples show ways in which the program was adapted in various settings. 10 notes and appended list of juvenile justice action projects