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Case Studies and Examples
"We chose the theme 'Drugs' as we thought this was a popular problem involving young people from everywhere"
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Norfolk Youth and Community Service / Youth Action Project
The aim of this exchange primarily, was to examine crime prevention, a particularly issue for the young people from Norfolk as they were all from risk areas and were no longer participating in formal schooling. They were, however, involved in education programmes and that degree of commitment emphasised and underlined their organisational skills in conceiving and developing the programme.
Consequently, the programme included a number of interesting activities: meeting with youth services that gave presentations on the juvenile justice system in Ireland; visiting a number of projects that target young school leavers (Youth Reach, Young Enterprise, Home Youth Liaison Service); workshops exploring 'new possibilities for juvenile crime prevention' and workshops on joyriding and car theft.
"I learned that their lifestyles were more or less similar to ours and that the problem of drugs was the same" |
Ultimately, the two groups did develop bonds and structured themselves into a team-working environment with some aplomb. This is an issue that will be considered in the future as the final thoughts on crime and crime prevention were met through two distinct perspectives: the Irish group, younger in its maturity levels, still viewed crime with a certain degree of glamour, whilst their English peers viewed crime as a social disease that was more a way of life, driven through necessity. The major benefit for the English group, many of whom were from deprived and disadvantaged backgrounds, was the opportunity to travel away from home. This was very new to most of them and they gained confidence and independence through the exchange whilst realising that 'home' was actually an OK place to be.
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