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Results for youth gangs (scotland)
3 results foundAuthor: Smith, Robert Title: Tackling Youth Gang Issues on Campus - A Case Study Summary: Youth gang crime is a topical and pervasive issue in contemporary Scotland. It is normally considered to be an urban street problem and seldom is the phenomenon framed in an educational context. This practice note discusses how one of Scotland’s longest serving campus officers dealt with youth gang issues on campus at a Secondary School in West Central Scotland. In the first part of the note, the authors provide some theoretical underpinnings to explain the importance of this policing approach. In the second part the authors present a case study which describes the effectiveness of some very practical policing strategies and why they proved to be so. Part three identifies key factors and draws conclusions. Details: Dundee, Scotland: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, 2011 Source: Internet Resource: Scottish Institute for Policing Research Practice Notes No. 1: Accessed on December 6, 2011 at: http://www.sipr.ac.uk/downloads/Practice_Notes/Campus_Officer_1.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.sipr.ac.uk/downloads/Practice_Notes/Campus_Officer_1.pdf Shelf Number: 123498 Keywords: School CrimeYouth Gangs (Scotland) |
Author: Smith, Robert Title: Tackling Youth Gangs Issues on Campus - A Case Study Summary: Youth gang crime is a topical and pervasive issue in contemporary Scotland. It is normally considered to be an urban street problem and seldom is the phenomenon framed in an educational context. This practice note discusses how one of Scotland’s longest serving campus officers dealt with youth gang issues on campus at a Secondary School in West Central Scotland. In the first part of the note, we provide some theoretical underpinnings to explain the importance of this policing approach. In the second part we present a case study which describes the effectiveness of some very practical policing strategies and why they proved to be so. Part three identifies key factors and draws conclusions. Details: Dundee, Scotland: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, 2011. 9p. Source: SIPR Practice Notes No. 1: Internet Resource: Accessed February 4, 2012 at http://www.sipr.ac.uk/downloads/Practice_Notes/Campus_Officer_1.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.sipr.ac.uk/downloads/Practice_Notes/Campus_Officer_1.pdf Shelf Number: 123969 Keywords: Police ResponseSchool CrimeYouth Gangs (Scotland) |
Author: Smith, David J. Title: Gang Membership and Teenage Offending Summary: The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of gang membership on teenage offending and substance use (alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit drugs). It draws on findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (‘the Edinburgh Study’), a longitudinal research programme exploring pathways into and out of offending for a cohort of around 4,300 young people who started secondary school in the City of Edinburgh in 1998. The key findings are as follows: About 20 per cent of young people said they belonged to a gang at the age of 13, falling to 5 per cent by the age of 17. However, membership of ‘hard core’ gangs, defined as having a well-defined subversive identity expressed through a specific name and sign or saying, remained level over these years. Gangs were fairly large: when cohort members were aged 17, half of them consisted of 20 or more people. Gang membership was rather more common in children from less affluent families and in those not living with both parents, but more striking was the much higher level of gang membership in deprived neighbourhoods. This shows that the social and ecological context is more important than the characteristics of the individual family. Just as high a proportion of girls as boys were members of gangs at the age of 13, but thereafter gang membership fell much more rapidly in girls than boys. Rates of delinquency and substance use were much higher in gang members than others throughout the years from 13 to 17, and this applied both to girls and to boys. The same individuals committed more offences during periods when they were gang members than during other periods. This shows that the link between delinquency and gang membership is independent of the characteristics of the individuals who join gangs. Gang membership has a strong statistical effect on delinquency when holding constant the effects of a range of other factors. The broader context of these findings is that much youth offending is a group activity. However, the study also shows that between the ages of 13 and 17 young people in Edinburgh tended to grow out of the need to identify with a gang while at the same time their offending tended to reduce. Details: Edinburgh, Scotland: Centre for Law and Society, The University of Edinburgh, 2005. 25p. Source: The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, Report No. 8: Internet Resource: Accessed July 18, 2012 at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/findings/digest8.pdf Year: 2005 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/findings/digest8.pdf Shelf Number: 102905 Keywords: Juvenile Offenders (Scotland)Youth Gangs (Scotland) |