Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

Prevent and Deter

Purpose

The purpose of Prevent & Deter is to increase the overall impact of the strategy by ensuring that those successfully targeted by Catch & Convict and Rehabilitate & Resettle are not replaced by a next generation.

Aims

Principal aim: To stop the most active young offenders escalating into tomorrow's prolific offenders through youth justice interventions and continued post-sentence support.

Supporting aim: To prevent children and young people becoming involved in criminality in the first place through early identification of those most at risk, and intensive targeting programmes

There aims correspond to clear target groups:

- The most active young offenders at greatest risk of becoming future adult or juvenile PPOs.

- Those young people on the cusp of offending or engaged in lower level offending, to prevent them from becoming more active young offenders and entering the pool of young people at risk of becoming future PPOs.

Guidance

Cover letter to the guidance

Guidance for the Prevent and Deter strand issued by the Home Office, the Youth Justice Board and the Department for Education and Skills.

Last update: Wednesday, September 19, 2007