Crime Prevention Legal Studies 3C

Police & Community Youth Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRuojFoMm4&list=UUS5sqhTIHvmBoZ8R5w3FISQ

Pulse Youth Centre – Glenorchy

U-Turn program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtVASM8WTw0

Adopt-a-cop/Police in Schools The Adopt-a-Cop program provides primary schools with a local police officer whom they ‘adopt’. The officer becomes a role model, who conducts presentations on a wide range of topics, including ‘stranger danger’ and police and the law. These presentations focus on risky behaviours and their consequences to the community, and discussions about making good decisions. The Police in Schools Program involves sworn police officers performing duties and providing a uniformed police presence in colleges throughout the State, as nominated by the Department of Education. The Program is aimed at strengthening the relationship between police and young people resulting in outcomes beneficial to the whole community.

Crime Stoppers Tasmania Crime Stoppers is a not-for-profit organisation whose primary goal is to make our neighbourhoods safer. We have an excellent reputation of engaging with community to help solve crime. For 20 years, Crime Stoppers Tasmania has been actively working with Tasmania Police to help fight crime in Tasmania. During that time, we’ve taken over 41,500 information reports; assisted with the arrest of more than 3,500 persons and the recording of over 16,000 offences; and contributed to the seizure of over $7.2 million worth of drugs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehm3MaysZXw

Neighbourhood Watch Neighbourhood Watch is a community based crime prevention program which aims to improve the quality of life within a neighbourhood by minimising preventable crime and promoting closer community ties. The program relies on the community and the Police working together in a partnership to achieve these aims.

In Portugal, treating drug use as a health issue not a criminal one saw drug use go down, not up. This makes sense when we look at Australia where we have a zero tolerance policy, yet we have one of the highest rates of illegal drug use per capita in the world. In Portugal, instead of prosecuting individual drug users, the money that would be spent on law enforcement is being redirected into treatment. If the police catch you using drugs, rather than send you to court they will issue you with a treatment order.  The individual appears before a panel who recommends a course of treatment, and access to treatment is guaranteed for the next day. This treatment panel also supports them with a range of other needs they may have arising from, and contributing to, their drug use - such as securing housing and employment.

Safe at Home Safe at Home is a whole-of-government strategy for responding to family violence in Tasmania. Safe at Home provides for an integrated response and intervention system designed to bring about a reduction in the incidence of family violence in the medium to long term. The initiative is intended to achieve a reduction in the level of family violence in the medium to long term and, in the shorter term, improve safety for adult and child victims as well as changing the offending behaviour of those responsible for the violence.

Safe at Home The Safe at Home program is overarched by the Family Violence Act 2004. Safe at Home is founded on the principle of ‘primacy of safety of the victim’ and police provide a pro-intervention, pro-arrest, and pro- prosecution response. (If there is evidence of family violence but no complaint from the victim, police will be proactive in their intervention, arrest and prosecution).

Youth Justice Act 1997 The objective of the Youth Justice Act 1997 is to appropriately administer youth justice with an emphasis on diverting young people who have admitted committing an offence away from the criminal justice system by emphasising informal cautions, formal cautions, community, family, and conferencing. Importantly, the Youth Justice Act seeks to encourage youths to take personal responsibility for their actions. Other principles that oversee the Act include that youth are not to be treated more severely than an adult would be and that victims and guardians are given an opportunity to participate in the process of dealing with the youth.