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2 results foundAuthor: Scotland. Violence Reduction Unit Title: The Violence Must Stop: Glasgow's Community Initiative to Reduce Violence: Second Year Report Summary: The initiative is a focused deterrence strategy modelled on the Boston Ceasefire project and the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence. The CIRV model establishes a partnership among police, social services, education, housing and community safety services along with the local community and delivers a clear message to established street gangs: the violence must stop. Following the success of such strategies internationally, Scotland’s national Violence Reduction Unit, together with the Scottish Government, has been testing the concept in Glasgow’s east end since October 2008, extending the project to the north of the city during 2009. CIRV, the VRU’s groundbreaking gangs’ initiative has helped reduce gang violence in Glasgow by almost 50%. To date, 400 gang members have signed up to CIRV, which operates in Glasgow’s east end and north side. Latest figures show violent offending by those who have signed up to CIRV has reduced by 46%, rising to 73% amongst those who undertook CIRV’s most intensive programmes. Details: Glasgow: Community Initiative to Reduce Violence, 2011(?). 36p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 26, 2011 at: http://www.actiononviolence.co.uk/content/cirv-helps-reduce-glasgow-gang-violence Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.actiononviolence.co.uk/content/cirv-helps-reduce-glasgow-gang-violence Shelf Number: 123455 Keywords: Gang ViolenceGangs (Scotland)Violent Crime |
Author: Includem Title: Gangs Pilot Interim Impact Report - January 2010 to March 2011 Summary: In 2008 Strathclyde Police approached Includem to discuss a mechanism to refer young people who they identified as being on the periphery of, or involved with, gang violence directly to Includem’s Intensive Support Service. The Police recognised they have primarily an enforcement role, and that this process was not having enough of an impact on reducing gang violence or the number of victims it created. They acknowledged that the enforcement role they provided would be more effective alongside an intervention to work with the young people to challenge their behaviours and attitudes that led to them perpetuating crime. It was from this starting point that funding was secured to deliver a partnership response to young people who were causing a disproportionate amount of crime within specific geographical locations in Glasgow. The young people referred presented multiple and complex support needs, most commonly a combination of behavioural issues including offending, problematic personal and social relationships, disengagement with education, family issues and substance misuse. Their offending behaviour was focused around gang activity and violence within the east or the north of Glasgow. Includem provided planned, structured support focusing on these identified support needs and tailored to the individual young person. Each contact usually covered 2 or 3 of these issues and the linkages amongst them. Includem’s support package also adapted to respond to any changing support needs, for example to respond to the incarceration of a parent and the loss experienced by the young person. Working within the essential framework of a trusting relationship, staff draw on a structured evidence informed series of practitioner modules – A Better Life - to tailor individual programmes of work to constructively address problems in attitude, behaviour, skills and relationships. Includem’s sustained monitoring and evaluation over 10 years confirms a pattern of consistent outcomes for young people who have the typical characteristics of young people in secure care or prison. This report provides an overview of activity for the first 15 months (January 2010 to March 2011). Project Aim -- To reduce offending of young people involved in gang behaviours, and the number of victims created, through delivery of intensive support and supervision at times of risk and supporting young people to (re)engage with services and opportunities which will build skills and resilience for positive choices and lifestyles. Details: Glasgow: Includem, 2012. 25p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 30, 2012 at: http://www.includem.org/file/1239 Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.includem.org/file/1239 Shelf Number: 125800 Keywords: Gang ViolenceGangs (Scotland)Juvenile Offenders, Rehabilitation |