Youth Crime Prevention and Sports

The initiative aims to promote sports and related activities to prevent crime and to effectively build resilience of at-risk youth.

Youth Crime Prevention through Sport

Using sports to provide positive experiences and support healthy development in young people, UNODC works to reduce anti-social behaviour by building important ...

Combating Youth Crime Through Sports Programs - Fight For Children

Participating in sports teaches discipline, teamwork, and the value of hard work. These are qualities that can deter young individuals from engaging in criminal ...

The Role of Sports in Crime Prevention - ICCLR

Crime prevention strategies have therefore tried to build on the popularity and benefits of sport activities to promote positive youth development.

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports: An Evaluation of Sport-Based ...

This chapter concludes the book with a discussion of the place of sports in overall crime prevention strategies and whether further investments in sport-based ...

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports - Bristol University Press

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports - An Evaluation of Sport-Based Programmes and Their Effectiveness; Sports-based crime prevention programmes are ...

IOC and UNODC highlight sport's powerful role in youth crime ...

IOC and UNODC highlight sport's powerful role in youth crime prevention ... Sport plays a crucial role in building safer communities and ...

The Role of Sport in Crime Prevention Programs Aimed at Young ...

Sport as Prevention: The Role of Sport in Crime Prevention Programs Aimed at Young People ... This report analyzes the aims, objectives, and operational ...

Introduction - Youth Crime Prevention and Sports

Summary. Sport-based crime prevention enjoys a level of popularity and political support which, despite the boastful claims of its supporters, is not totally ...

Sport as a tool for crime and violence prevention - sportanddev

Sport is a transformative tool that can deter at-risk youth from crime and violence; sports clubs can provide a close-knit community, centred ...

SCORE against Crime: Harnessing Sport for Crime… - UN Web TV

In crime prevention settings, sport can, enhance positive youth development, build life skills and provide youth with positive role models ...

Study reveals how sports programmes for young children can ...

Previous research in the sector has consistently shown the power of leveraging sports as a tool for crime prevention and violence reduction.

Participation in High School Sports Lowers Major Crime

When high schools have strong interscholastic sports participation rates, they report lower levels of major crime and fewer suspensions, according to a new ...

IOC emphasises power of sport in combatting youth violence and ...

SC:ORE illustrates some of the many ways that sport can serve as a tool for crime prevention. Focusing on sport-based learning and skills ...

Crime prevention through sport and physical activity

This paper examines a variety of sporting activities that appear to have had a beneficial effect in helping young people steer away from trouble. It examines ...

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports: An Evaluation of Sport-Based ...

This book takes stock of research evidence on the impact of these programmes on youth crime and gang recruitment. Another goal of this effort is ...

Sport, science and art in the prevention of crime among children and ...

Because leisure can be considered as most closely associated with the world of adolescence beyond school, it is regarded as an important context for youth crime ...

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports: An Evaluation of Sport-Based Programmes and their Effectiveness. Search within full text.

Youth Crime Prevention and Sports

Crime prevention strategies have tried to build on the popularity and benefits of sports activities to promote youth development and to ...

Sport can help to reduce youth offending but the evidence around ...

New research by academics from Loughborough University has shown that measuring the success of sport-based interventions (SBIs) is complex and problematic.