Social Crime Prevention objective: To provide services to all persons at risk and in conflict with the law, ensuring social protection and contributing to a safer society, in support of law enforcement and crime combating initiatives
Therefore, in ensuring compliance to our objective Social crime prevention section have to engage with the identified persons that are at risk and in conflict with the law with special focus on rendering preventative programmes and early intervention services which are outcome based. I will then highlight activities rendered and outcomes achieved by all the groups that we have in social crime prevention.
Activities
Youth Dialogues and Youth Crime Prevention Summits
Youth Camps and Wilderness therapy programmes
Life Skills Programmes
Parenting Programmes for parents of children identified as being at risk of being in conflict with the law
Awareness programmes and information sessions
Individual and family therapy services
Restorative Justice Processes: Victim-Offender mediation, Family Group Conferencing
Family Preservation Services
Job Creation Programme and Career Exhbitions
Support Groups
Monitoring and Tracking of clients
Evaluation of effectiveness of interventions.
Achieved outcomes
Assisted children and youth identified by parents and school teachers as being at risk before they require statutory services, and more intense therapy was rendered.
Decrease in number of young people from entering the Criminal Justice System.
Children being diverted away from Criminal Justice System.
Decrease in number of children incurring criminal records.
Modified behavior
Service users being empowered with skills to enable them to cope with the challenges leading in involvement in criminal activities.
Assisted court to make informed and impartial decisions when sentencing services users who have been found guilty of different offences
Enhanced good relationships within families and communities.
Social cohesion is promoted
Reduced re-offending
Reduced institutionalization
Self-reliance and optimal social functioning within the family and community settings.
