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Action on gang crime: recent developments
- Author:
- PITTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Safety Journal, 7(1), February 2008, pp.9-11.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The author outlines recent developments on gang crime including policy initiatives and regional and local projects.
Describing and defining youth gangs
- Author:
- PITTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Safety Journal, 7(1), February 2008, pp.26-32.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Academics, practitioners and policy-makers have wrestled with the problem of defining youth gangs and differentiating them from other youth groups. This is partly because different contributors to the debate have been interested in gangs for different contributors to the debate have been interested in gangs for different reasons, but also because the form that gangs take is often determined by local factors, which make producing a single generic definition difficult, if not impossible. In this article the author discusses the various definitions.
Home Affairs Committee report: young black people and the criminal justice system
- Author:
- PITTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Safety Journal, 7(1), February 2008, pp.4-8.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article summarises the key findings of the recent Home Affairs Committee report 'Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System'.
Sometimes, less is more
- Author:
- PITTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Safety Journal, 5(4), October 2006, pp.30-36.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Drawing upon current research in Northamptonshire, this article argues that the assumption that formal criminal justice interventions with early-stage young offenders will have positive deterrent and rehabilitative effects does not appear to be borne out in practice. It contends that the use of informal diversionary strategies with, low-level, early-stage, young offenders, may have a more positive impact in terms of re-conviction rates, averting the escalation of 'deviant careers', reducing criminal victimisation and cost savings. The article concludes with a discussion of the political and administrative barriers to the implementation of such strategies in English youth justice.
Averting ghettoisation: the role of educational services in reducing crime and victimisation in the ethnic community in Anderlecht, Brussels
- Author:
- PITTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Safety Journal, 5(3), June 2006, pp.7-13.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The research findings discussed in this article come from the second phase of an EU-funded trans-European research programme which investigated routes out of social exclusion for socially and economically marginal children and young people. The research partners investigated the impact of professional intervention on the lives of 67 young people, aged 14 to 24 and their estimation of the types of intervention which could support them in their attempts to achieve their educational and vocational aspirations. The research highlighted the central role of the family, groups and social networks and the importance of consulting with or participation by the young people themselves in developing successful interventions. The intervention in this high crime low income, inner-city Brussels neighbourhood, with a large ethnic community, has important implications for how educational and community safety initiatives might be brought together to achieve the goals set out in Every Child Matters, Youth Matters and Narrowing the Justice Gap.
No boundaries- the anti-social behaviour industry and young people
- Author:
- PITTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Safety Journal, 4(4), October 2005, pp.23-33.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Anti-social behaviour legislation has resulted in a growth of the administrative mechanisms to enforce it. New guidance has been issued recommending an incremental approach and the number of orders and interventions has increased. This article examines the criticisms and assumptions on the effectiveness of anti-social behaviour orders in the context of recent and emerging research.