Policing Children and Young People
The Foundation is developing a major international initiative on the policing of children and young people, which will feed into parallel work being undertaken by the Council of Europe. The main aim is to develop a better understanding of how the police interact with children and young people in a variety of situations, including police stations, the courts and public spaces, and improve the way in which the police deal with children and young people, whether as offenders, victims or witnesses.
With the help of funding from the British Council, The Foundation, in collaboration with Dr Joe Hornick from The Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family and Professor Janet Walker from the Centre for Family Studies, has already held two workshops, one in Calgary and one in London. The workshops brought experts from various sectors, in both Canada and the UK, to discuss the development of the study. The overall long-term objective of our collaboration will be the production of Best Practice Manuals for use by police forces internationally.
In Summer 2006, John Graham spoke at 'Sharing across borders - learning from experience'; the Annual Crime Prevention Training Institute run by the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime. He gave a paper on youth crime prevention, which is available to read below:
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