NCJ Number
134002
Editor(s)
B Halstead
Date Published
1991
Length
258 pages
Annotation
The objective of the Youth Crime Prevention Policy Forum, reported in these proceedings and convened by the Australian Institute of Criminology, was to examine and assess youth crime prevention policy models in Federal, State, local, and nongovernment contexts.
Abstract
General themes addressed at the primary prevention level include the need for a realistic level of income support for young people and attention to the problems of youth homelessness; recognition of the special educational and employment needs of minority disadvantaged groups including Aboriginal and non-English speaking background youth; and the need for realistic allocation of funds to permit program evaluation. Considerable discussion during the proceedings focused on the possibility of modifying France's Bonnemaison model, the use of a crime prevention contract system to place extra demand on existing facilities as a national crime prevention strategy. Many State groups recommended the creation of State-based youth crime prevention strategies. 95 references and 1 appendix