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| NCJ Number:
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NCJ 194998
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| Title:
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Early Childhood Crime Prevention -- Implications for Policing
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| Author(s):
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John Stanwick
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| Corporate Author:
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Australasian Centre for Policing Research
Australia
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| Sale:
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Australasian Centre for Policing Research
PO Box 370
Marden South Australia 5070, Australia |
| Publication Date:
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2001 |
| Pages:
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20 |
| Type:
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Literature reviews |
| Origin:
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Australia |
| Language:
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English |
| Note:
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Australasian Centre for Policing Research Paper Series No 7. |
| Annotation:
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This article focuses on interventions that take place early in a child’s life to prevent crime in later life. |
| Abstract:
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The early childhood approach is based on evidence that the interaction between risk and protective factors that arise in a person’s early childhood can lead to socially undesirable outcomes such as crime later in life. Evidence based on studies taking place in the United States as well as from Australia is now accumulating as to the effectiveness of this approach. Partnership or multi-agency collaboration is central to this approach to prevention because they have the ability to gather resources from several relevant areas. They need to have commonality of goals, be well planned, and be adequately funded to be effective. Police have an important role in these partnerships in terms of acting as facilitators between the various agencies. Police are also in a position to be strong advocates for early childhood intervention approaches. They will remain critical front line providers in an overall crime prevention approach. On the basis of extensive research literature, it is recommended that early childhood approaches should be considered as one aspect of an overall balanced approach to crime prevention. Although this approach is not under the direct control of police, they still have an important role to play in terms of advocacy and facilitation between agencies, as well as being front line providers of other key aspects of a multi-faceted approach to crime prevention. It is important not to overemphasize the effects of the early intervention approach, as by itself it does not eliminate crime. It is wise to balance this approach to crime prevention with other approaches that are able to realize short-term benefits. 4 footnotes, 25 references |
| Main Term(s):
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Crime prevention measures/ ; Child development |
| Index Term(s):
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Juvenile delinquency prevention ; Crime specific countermeasures ; Deterrence ; Youth development ; Proactive police units ; Delinquency prevention planning |
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