At all times, young persons committed offences more often than adults which is mainly because they have not concluded the development of their personality and often do not...
Safety and its opposite, fear of crime, are two important and central issues in crime prevention efforts. Recent years have brought a significant increase in the number of studies...
Because crime is primarily a youth phenomenon, and because people under the age of 24 are overrepresented 3 to 1 in the criminal justice system, there is good reason to prevent...
The priorities of crime prevention are defined by the National Strategy for Community Crime Prevention (2003) reacting to the actual challenges of crime. The Strategy has a...
Safety from crime is an important part of the overall safe society definition. In Lithuania the term "feeling of safety" is more common than the term "fear of crime". It combines...
Though the number of investigated criminal offences, committed by juveniles or with their participation has been decreasing since 2004 as well as the number of convicted juveniles...
Measuring public perceptions of safety The Veiligheidsmonitor Rijk 2007 [Government Security Monitor 2007, only in Dutch] measures both objective and perceived safety. Objective...
Public perceptions of safety reflects the individual’s view of aspects of the environment coupled with, or in addition to, issues of perceived, or actual signs or events, of...