Police-led interventions with ‘at risk’ young people, raise a number of debates around policing in society including the allocation of resources at a time of fiscal austerity, the extent to which the police should prioritise the safety and wellbeing of young people, and the role that the police should take in preventing youth crime. This article explores the impact and effectiveness of a police-led social crime prevention initiative in England. It adopts the QUALIPREV approach by Rummens et al (2016) on behalf of the European Crime Prevention Network to analyse the data allowing for a detailed and replicable analysis of core aspects including police engagement, risk management, offending rates and police-community relations. Drawing on comparisons between the UK case study and previous studies on police-led social crime prevention projects in Australia and Canada, the article identifies a number of common challenges for schemes of this nature including problems with multi agency working, developing a clear project identity, unequal resources across different locations, and the difficulty in recruiting and retaining volunteers. However, there were also significant benefits to such schemes, including positive impacts on offending rates, engagement of at risk young people, and wider benefits to the communities within which the young people live, including participation, volunteering and reduction in risks of community harm. A cost-benefit analysis also shows such scheme have the potential to offer significant savings to the criminal justice system as a whole.

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警方主导的社会犯罪预防举措是否有效？：英国青年干预的过程和结果评估

警察主导的对“处于危险中”的年轻人的干预引发了一系列关于社会警务的辩论，包括财政紧缩时期的资源分配、警察应在多大程度上优先考虑年轻人的安全和福祉，以及警察在预防青少年犯罪方面应发挥的作用。本文探讨了英格兰警方主导的社会犯罪预防计划的影响和有效性。它采用 Rummens 等人（2016 年）代表欧洲预防犯罪网络的 QUALIPREV 方法来分析数据，从而可以对包括警察参与、风险管理、犯罪率和警察-社区关系在内的核心方面进行详细和可复制的分析。通过对英国案例研究与之前澳大利亚和加拿大警方主导的社会犯罪预防项目的研究进行比较，本文确定了这种性质的计划面临的一些共同挑战，包括多机构工作的问题、制定明确的项目身份、不同地点的资源不平等，以及招募和留住志愿者的困难。然而，此类计划也有显着的好处，包括对犯罪率的积极影响，有风险的年轻人的参与，以及为年轻人所居住的社区带来更广泛的好处，包括参与、志愿服务和减少社区伤害的风险。成本效益分析还表明，此类计划有可能为整个刑事司法系统节省大量资金。