CRM 3308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Youth Justice Board, Precrime, Sept

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3308
• Professor: Irvin Waller

Document Summary

You want signitficant investments to youth in high crime area, make sure theres. 1- invest in pre-crime prevention, including matching efforts to use law enforcement with equal dollars for pre-crime prevention to provide better futures for youth in those problem places. 2- fund the investment initially in proven pre-crime prevention while deliberately decreasing the use of incarceration. A reinvestment of 20 percent from incarceration to effective pre-crime prevention would be a reasonable initial target. Targets: always need to be made, and then work backwards once obtaining your target, in order to make delivery and outcomes, by setting targets it falls very much in line with what can and has happen. Legislators should identify areas identified by law enforcement as hot spots for investments in pre-crime prevention, such as: proven family-based therapies, such as functional family. Youth inclusion programs and mentoring; where necessary, programs such as multidimensional.