Identifying Problems
Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships will want to tackle local, previously intractable
problems associated with persistent young offending. Your focus will be on achieving
sustainable reductions in persistent young offending and youth crime at the neighbourhood
or community level.
Working in partnership with Youth Offending Teams, integrated strategies and action
plans will need to be developed which link to services outside the youth justice system
e.g. employment services, housing services, career and leisure services. Crime &
Disorder Reduction Partnerships should provide the wider crime reduction framework
that targets intervention with children and young people at particular risk of offending.
Their aim should be to stop children and young people becoming involved in crime.
Crime & Disorder Partnerships will, therefore, need to develop a comprehensive
local audit, with an involvement of the local community. This will help:
to prioritise and target activity
to obtain a baseline of the scale and nature of youth offending and anti-social
behaviour committed by young people to monitor future success and
failure
review and evaluate current work in progress
identify gaps in local service response & provision
identify relevant local partners/stakeholders to co-operate with and achieve
a more successful outcome with joint resources and;
create ownership at a local level.
The Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership will need to gather and analyse information
on:
This section sets out to help partners with this analysis. It provides summary
checklists for suggested local use. It also draws on the principles set out in the
"Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity" framework developed by the Home Office
Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. Ideally, the audit should contain
information on each of the following:
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Offences, crime, anti-social behaviour
/disorder & other forms of nuisance behaviour
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Number, types & rates of incidents
Trends
Geographic distribution (e.g. ward, beat, estate, town centre area)
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Victims
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Age, gender, ethnicity, area where they live
Analysis of patterns of repeat victimisation
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Offenders
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Age, gender, ethnicity, area where they live
Persistent/serious offending behaviour
Risk factors associated with offending behaviour e.g. drug misuse, unemployment
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Costs of children & youth offending
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Costs & consequences of children & youth offending e.g. repair costs; loss of business;
local public services expenditure on processing & dealing with offending by young
people
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Cost of preventing youth crime
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Cost of specific initiatives e.g. Youth Inclusion Programmes, truancy & exclusion;
Sure Start
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Contextual information & information on risk factors
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Social, economic & environmental associated with anti-social behaviour/disorder
& other forms of nuisance problems
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The following checklist will assist Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships on
the types of information that should be obtained, information sources.
Click here for checklist
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