The framework for local action presented here incorporates three themes: early childhood development, opportunities for young people, and safer neighborhoods. Early development programs can be categorized as school-age pregnancy prevention, prenatal and infant development, family support and parental training, preschool education and child care, and primary school education. Services and opportunities that can be developed with and for young people at the secondary school level to reduce their predisposition to offend should focus on schooling, youth work, training and employment, and young people in local authority care. This analysis also considers how efforts to reduce juvenile delinquency can be supported by the ways in which neighborhoods are designed and managed for crime prevention and general safety. The development of local crime prevention efforts must be based on multiagency strategies, single-agency strategies, and local structures. Chapter references