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Educational Crime Prevention: Ideas, Aarhus, Denmark (From Cooperation Between the School System and the Police Force: The Second International ICRA-Workshop for International Practitioners, Esbjerg, Denmark, February 18-21, 1991, P 12-27 -- See NCJ-136767)

NCJ Number
136768
Author(s)
T Andersen; B Laursen
Date Published
Unknown
Length
16 pages
Annotation
In Aarhus, Denmark, the police and the schools cooperate both formally and informally to prevent juvenile delinquency.
Abstract
One project has been to produce and present a crime prevention curriculum for all grades based on initial efforts focusing on students aged 12-14 years. For the younger children, the curriculum focuses on everyday situations that involve rules that people need to associate with one another. For children ages 9-12, the curriculum focuses on what happens when rules are broken. It discusses roads and traffic, shoplifting, thefts from parents, and vandalism. The curriculum for ages 12-14 starts with a video showing shoplifting, burglary, and vandalism and continues with a booklet and discussion of methods of preventing these behaviors and the role of the police, the courts, and other agencies in addressing these situations. For the youths aged 14-16, the curriculum focuses on choices made each day including choices to become involved in criminal behavior. Materials used in the curriculum include an idea pamphlet, an idea folder, a video, a poster, a puzzle, a folder for parents. Measuring the results of this prevention curriculum is difficult, but the teachers have responded positively to it.