NCJ Number
165167
Journal
Police Chief Volume: 63 Issue: 12 Dated: (December 1996) Pages: 21-22,24-25,29
Editor(s)
C E Higginbotham
Date Published
1996
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This article presents recommendations from a 1996 summit of 80 practitioners and scholars, who met under the sponsorship of the International Association of Chiefs of Police to discuss what can be done to counter the growing problem of youth violence in American society.
Abstract
A number of recommendations are in the general category of strengthening the family. These recommendations include promoting the family as the foundation for imparting values to children, increasing services for troubled families and children, creating a network of child advocacy centers where victims of child abuse and neglect can go for support and services, and providing enhanced support for parents who lack basic parenting and family management skills. Other recommendations pertain to mobilizing the community. These recommendations include the involvement of youth in examining youth violence and the development of solutions, the establishment of local delinquency councils to foster community preventive actions, the building of community action teams, and the expansion of community policing. Other recommendations are under the general categories of repositioning law enforcement, recapturing the schools, treating youth violence as an epidemic, strengthening the delivery of justice, improving multiagency partnerships, intensifying public education, replicating programs that work, and improving information sharing.