what matters to you ?
Mental Health Social Media
How mental health is effecting for youths everyday? Why is this become a problem with. youth ?
how the. rate of youth in sucidce in youth ? How are youths being. influenced to change there-self ?
why is the rate increasing ? How can we prevent this problem ?
How are we able to prevent this ? Why do teenagers feel it's important to change thereseleves ?
Mental Health
The rate in suicide in youths are increasing everyday, I feel passionately about this topic as I lost a friend to suicide, The rate in mental health needs to go down because we can't kept losing children at this rate. There are many things that are affecting children's mental health, including social media, a bad home life, being treat in the wrong way. Children shouldn't feel as suicide is there only choice, It make you wonder wether adult art realising how effected these children are or that they need to seek help. Maybe there isn't enough support for child and maybe more support systems need to put in place, I think that if other youth are able to shares the story with each other, It could help children. so they know there not alone.
How mental health is effecting for youths everyday? Why is this become a problem with. youth ?
how the. rate of youth in sucidce in youth ? How are youths being. influenced to change there-self ?
why is the rate increasing ? How can we prevent this problem ?
How are we able to prevent this ? Why do teenagers feel it's important to change thereseleves ?
Mental Health
The rate in suicide in youths are increasing everyday, I feel passionately about this topic as I lost a friend to suicide, The rate in mental health needs to go down because we can't kept losing children at this rate. There are many things that are affecting children's mental health, including social media, a bad home life, being treat in the wrong way. Children shouldn't feel as suicide is there only choice, It make you wonder wether adult art realising how effected these children are or that they need to seek help. Maybe there isn't enough support for child and maybe more support systems need to put in place, I think that if other youth are able to shares the story with each other, It could help children. so they know there not alone.
Youth Crime
Youth crime is something that is still increasing everyday, I feel that people most oftenly now something the
Why we chose to do knife crime ?
We chose to do knife crime because I feel. as though it is a. topic that people have forgotten the importance of but yet is still a massive issue that is still ruining loads of lives. and. ending. others. After doing research into this topic I discovered just. how many people had been effected by this, I was. so shocked when I discovered just how many and how other topics. some less important than this one had. blind. sighted me. I wanted to show and me others realise the importance of knife crime and just how it can effect others and ruin peoples lives. I feel this topic fits the brief well because knife. crime is a very important issue that would appeal to teens and hopefully educate them. I think. knife crime would appeal to. my target. audience because its a topic that most teens don't know or don't realise the importance of, I think that. teens want to know about new topic and be more educated.
Mind Map
Harvard Research Practice
Juliette Garside. (2019). Malta's police 'may have turned down evidence' in Journalist's murder. Available: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/16/malta-police-evidence-daphne-caruana-galizia. Last accessed 16th October 2019.
Phillip Tyler. (2014). Negative youth portrayal in the media. Available: https://www.shoutoutuk.org/2014/08/14/negative-youth-portrayal-media/. Last accessed 16th Oct 2019.
Research
age of criminality
The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10 years old, It means that children under 10 can't be arrested or charged with a crime. Children between 10-17 can be arrested and taken to court if they commit a crime.
identity of children accused of a crime
The identity of a child aged between 10 and 17 charged with a crime will not be disclosed. outside the court. Those permitted inside the court included the usual participants in cases heard in court; ranging from officers of the court, to the parties, parents and guardians, and bona fide member of the press.
Reporting restrictions include not being able to revealing personal information including some home address, parents or guardians personal information. It important for them to remain anonymous.
how young offenders are dealt with in court
young offenders are dealt with in different ways depending with the court compared to adults with defendants referred to by their first names
if they are under 16 and If their parent, guardians are attending court with them, In more serious cases they will be. taken to Crown Court.
Matthew Hickley. (). One in four adolescents is a criminal. Available: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-34916/One-adolescents-criminal.html. Last accessed 17th Oct 2019.
youth crime is getting worse, with a. quarter those. aged 11 to 16 have admitted to committed an offence in the past year. A raising proportion have confessed that they have been involved in crimes across the. board, the crimes range from shoplifting, assault, handling stolen goods, according to a survey. The study of more than 5000 schoolchildren, commissioned by the Youth Justice Board, concluded that in almost every category of crime the. percentage of children committing offences of that type has increased.
The biggest increases In confessions were seen for handling stolen goods (up from. 19 per cent to 25 per cent), physical assault (from 24 per cent to 31 per cent ) and thefts from school (from 15 per cent to 23 per cent).
identity of children accused of a crime
The identity of a child aged between 10 and 17 charged with a crime will not be disclosed. outside the court. Those permitted inside the court included the usual participants in cases heard in court; ranging from officers of the court, to the parties, parents and guardians, and bona fide member of the press.
Reporting restrictions include not being able to revealing personal information including some home address, parents or guardians personal information. It important for them to remain anonymous.
how young offenders are dealt with in court
young offenders are dealt with in different ways depending with the court compared to adults with defendants referred to by their first names
if they are under 16 and If their parent, guardians are attending court with them, In more serious cases they will be. taken to Crown Court.
Matthew Hickley. (). One in four adolescents is a criminal. Available: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-34916/One-adolescents-criminal.html. Last accessed 17th Oct 2019.
youth crime is getting worse, with a. quarter those. aged 11 to 16 have admitted to committed an offence in the past year. A raising proportion have confessed that they have been involved in crimes across the. board, the crimes range from shoplifting, assault, handling stolen goods, according to a survey. The study of more than 5000 schoolchildren, commissioned by the Youth Justice Board, concluded that in almost every category of crime the. percentage of children committing offences of that type has increased.
The biggest increases In confessions were seen for handling stolen goods (up from. 19 per cent to 25 per cent), physical assault (from 24 per cent to 31 per cent ) and thefts from school (from 15 per cent to 23 per cent).
Emily Dugan . (2012). The 16-year-olds who have committed 86 crimes each . Available: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-16-year-olds-who-have-committed-86-crimes-each-7878741.html. Last accessed 17th Oct 2019.
a delinquent minority will commit an average of 86 crimes each by the age of 16, nearly less than 4 per cent responsible for nearly half of all youth. crime. This can happen. because. of the youths social background/ life situation . 16 percent who have admitted having the weakest moral sense and self-control were responsible for. 60 per cent of all the recorded crimes.Cambridge researchers studied 700 teenagers over five years in Peterborough, chosen as a bellwether location. for it's average size, crime level and social make-up. Youngster. aged from 12 to 16 were asked about their attitudes to lawlessness and asked what criminal things. they had. done. Their were cross-checked with police records.
In a single court case Moffett admitted five robberies, three attempted robberies and three charges of possessing a bladed article. He led an older accomplice in a. series of attacks on women and children last year, including threatening a 14- year-old with a rusty blade to get his mobile phone and 21p in change. He was caught after punching a pregnant woman in the stomach to. steal her wallet while her five-year-old daughter looked on. He wrote on his Facebook page. "I'm nothing but a bully that can't hit a man cus I no I will get banged (beaten) so I have to hit girls.",
Professor Per-Olof Wikstrom, who led the Cambridge study, said : "Many young people are 'crime averse' and simply don't perceive crime as a possible course of action. The idea that opportunity makes the thief- that young people will inevitably commit crime in. certain environments - runs counter to our findings"
Anoop Bhuller. (2018). Youth crime on the rise in the UK. Available: https://www.shoutoutuk.org/2018/10/30/youth-crime-on-the-rise-in-the-uk/. Last accessed 17th Oct 2019.
Police statistics have shown that knife and gun-related crimes increased by an overwhelming 14 per cent just last year. Youth crime is increasing in the UK which begs the question whether the law is effective for the younger generations in today’s society.
staggering 14,500 new entrants into the Youth Justice System, There were 40,000 proven offences involving possession of a knife or offensive weapon. teenagers have formed knife gang. Now, anyone that buys a knife online will be banned from having it sent to a residential address. We can only wait to see if this law will be effective in reducing youth crime. This law may help youth gangs from using acid in their crimes. there are still daily cases of youth crimes being reported. This type of crime poses a great threat, as approaching a pedestrian on a motorbike could potentially cause physical harm to the victim. There are still youth gangs present throughout Britain. Education on youth crime should be implemented in schools so that young people are aware of the personal risk. Early education and awareness of crimes could prevent young people becoming involved in illegal activity. Young people are aware that some crimes can be cleared once they turn 18, this may be one explanation for the increase in gangs; kids think that they will not have to become accountable for their actions and will be given a clean slate once they turn 18, In order to reduce youth crime, the causes of young people committing crimes need to be fully understood. These causes could include peer pressure, family troubles, bullying, financial hardship, as well as drug and alcohol abuse. In addition to this, young people feel a large amount of pressure nowadays to feel part of a group. Tackling these issues would lower youth crime and encourage young people to create a stable life for themselves.
Reducing Youth Crime
Early intervention is. playing an important role in keeping youths from embarking on a life of crime. Structured and consistent punishment for offences can help reduce the incidence of crime, after the offers have served there sentence, they are. then given further support. Offered that have committed crimes are dealt with swiftly, offences committed by minors are. covered by juvenile criminal. law. Officers are now taking this approach when it comes to dealing. with young offenders
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Personalised approach
every young person is different so they deserve support that. is tailored to them as an individual. , an aggressive person can be ordered to attend a course to learn how to cope with and control aggression.
Training and education programmes
When a young person is released from young offenders’ institution, he or she needs to reintegrate into society by attending school or university, or finding a job. The training and education programmes provided at the end of the custodial period are intended to help them prepare for this.
proper support and guidance
Young offenders’ institutions, the child protection board and. the youth probation board work together. in network and arrange shelter, income, education and/or work for young offenders upon release. children under the age of 12 cannot be prosecuted, the police can either talk to their parents or reference them. to youth care office. Parents of the minor. then have to attend a hearing, this is so the court are able to judge the family situation the minor concerned. If the parent don't attend. the hearing, the court can issue a warrant to. secure their attendance in court, In some cases the police might come to the minor house and escort their parents to court.
Angela Balakrishnan. (2008). Tackling Knife crime: different approaches.Available: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jul/14/knifecrime.youngpeople. Last accessed 17th Oct 2019.
London's operation blunt
One of the biggest schemes is "London's operation Blunt" It was put in by the Metropolitan police in November 2004. According to Met figures, the rate of knife violence went down drastically . As a result of this success, Operation Blunt was rolled out across 32 boroughs in December 2005, The police included educational programmes, knife search operations using metal detector arches and "dispersal zones" where police officers were given special stop. However for some people this was an awkward and uncomfortable situation for them, high-visibility policing was increased, the police then did a test to she wether shop was selling knives illegally. The Met then launched Operation Blunt Two, again using special search powers in high-risk areas and airport-style metal detectors. The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced a £5m package to tackle violent crime. Since then, 27,000 people have been searched, 1,200 arrested and 500 knives seized. Of those arrested, 95% have since been charged with weapons offences.
Damilola Taylor Trust
Operation Blunt followed work done by the Damilola Taylor Trust this launched in November 2001 on the first anniversary of the death of the 11-year-old Nigerian boy after which it is named, who was killed in. result of knife crime. The trust was made to stop knife violence from happening, however the scheme also included school expulsion, learning and behavioural difficulties, drug and alcohol abuse and poor parenting. The Damilola Taylor centre that is based in Peckham, provides facilities such as football, dance, discussion forums and yoga to help to young people and encourage them to pursue successful careers and to get their lives back on track. I think this scheme is amazing as they are helping people in need. .Some experts say more effective targeting would reduce knife crime. Mike Jervis, chief executive of the Damilola Taylor Trust, recently said it was essential to dispel the culture of fear that led youngsters to believe they had to carry a blade. He said more work should be done in schools to this effect.
Chicago's CeaseFire Scheme
Some Youth charities in the US starting looking at helping stop knife crime after they swear what work the UK was doing. Some parts of America suffer far greater levels of gang-related violence than does the UK. One such area is Chicago. However, Gary Slutkin started a scheme of his own in 1995, has it was successful. It mostly focuses on gun violence, gun violence is one of the biggest problem in areas such as Chicago and Boston, Slutkin says "the type of weapon is immaterial and the CeaseFire principles can be applied to all violent disputes on city streets". The approach has two stages. Firstly , as if fighting a contagious disease, The second, longer-term step is likened to treating Aids, among intravenous drug users and groups in that it tries to change the behaviour of whole groups – mainly youth gangs – so that stabbings become unacceptable. A three-year, $1m (£500,000) study by the US justice department found that six out of the seven neighbourhoods in which CeaseFire operated saw a 17-24% reduction in gun violence. In the first year of CeaseFire's activities in Chicago, shootings dropped by 67%.Zero tolerance in New York's Crime in New York City spiked in the 1980s, hitting a peak by 1990. More than 2,000 murders were fuelled by the crack epidemic that hit the city.
The criminologists' viewManuel Eisner, Cambridge University
"Operation Blunt seems good on paper but I don't know whether it is in practice. The website says the available resources for the scheme are £27,000. , it's less than half a penny per person. It may a good programme but if it doesn't have the money to. succeed this Is a problem, it will be difficult to tackle crime unless they have the money.. It takes a multi-level approach to work. If you want to approach violence protection with juveniles, you need to engage in prevention early on – with social skills and anger management lessons in schools from a young age. You need policies which bridge softer deterrent measures and tougher punishments."Also there needs to be a wider focus on youth violence. If you look at the Met's data on knife crime in the last five or six years, it seems it is part of an overall developing of violence. Prevention policies need to tackle youth violence on the whole, rather than tackling knife crime alone."
Lawrence Sherman, University of Pennsylania
"If you take evidence looking at theories that have been tested, stop and search measures which have identified places and times where weapons are most carried have been the ones to produce the most results."There have been test studies where youth offenders or those likely to offend have been taken to see adult inmates in prison and these tests show that often crime increase. Youths are often impressed by the inmates they meet and how tough they are and it inspires them to be like them and stand up to those who threaten them."It's important to come up with new ideas to tackle youth crime, but they need to be based on more than theory. You need evidence to show that schemes are going to work and the only one that I have seen that with is either more policing – as in New York or stop and searches."
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Video number 1
The introduction to this video is a British flag, however this British flag is torn, I think this shows that Britain is not perfect and there are people happening all around it. as the flag is fading out the message "RVLE BRITANNIA' then comes onto the screen. In this documentary no presenter is used I think they decided to do this so the focus isn't taken off the offenders or their story I think this also make the documentary look more raw and honest. They are not hiding anything, at the beginning of the documentary, they show different shots of Abingdon, they show the ruff areas this is to make the area look dangerous, scary, they do this by video graffiti and putting a dim light, the documentary then changes to the group of offenders talking about their experience, we are not able. to hear the interviewer asking the questions, but the answer that are giving and then put together, when watching this it felt raw and honest and although they were happy and willing to talk. because of the area of which the offenders are from they informal tone and language, in the clip they are also show the offenders looking after a dog, by having the dog in the video I think that it show that these people have heart and they do care and that people have the idea that these people are heartless and only care for themselves I think this is something that the documentary makers wanted to show, later on in the documentary, we see on of the offenders rolling a cigarette, I think this is done once again to show honesty and that they are not trying to hide anything. Video number 2 This documentary is very different from the first, it start in a very different way with reporter Jeremy Vine introducing himself and saying panorama, this documentary is. made by the BBC so it is common to see it start like this, it then change to a shot of a male and female crying in-front of a memorial, loud heavy music is put into the background to create a dramatic effect, a voice over is then put over the music and a picture of the victim is put onto the screen, this grabs the audiences attention, this is common for the BBC, small different clip of gangs are then put onto the screen, I think this is done to scare the audience in a sense, a voice over of one of the members of the gang are then put over the clip then the image changes so. we can see him talking, the male is wearing, a black hoodie and mouth mask. We are then introduced to a new presenter Graham Johnson, who is from the area, this makes the documentary more personal, We are then shown him driving through Liverpool, but. he doesn't leave the car, this shows that the area is dangerous and him and the camera crew don't feel its safe enough to leave the car, the. dramatic music is still being used, we are then shown interview from people/ locals that are effected by this, we are also shown night shots, to make it look more dangerous and more threatening. video number 3 this documentary is in a different format to the other documentary and maybe wouldn't be think of as. a documentary and more of a news article, a presenter is used in the programme, the interviewer interview a young boy that want to be a priminster but because he has coloured skin he feels as-though he doesn't have a proper chance, they used different flaming techniques., to make the documentary more interesting. the person that they are interview is the tour guide this gives the documentary an unexpected twist. |
all about Lyn
Lyn is a qualified teacher with over 30 year of experience in the classroom, she post with Reading Youth Offending Service (January 2001- April 2017), she accredited ADHD coach and ASD advisor ( since January 2004), Lyn is a licensed facilitator for "Time out for parents" series : children with special needs, ADHD, ASD, she is fully insured (public liability and professional indemnity). Lyn brings change to the following, the belief and hope that you are responsible for helping affect positive change, also the ability to adopt a solution focussed approach that is strengths-based and focusses attention on the concept and importance of "sparkly moments". An ability to communicate clear objectives, realistic outcomes and time frames, awareness and apprection.
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our factual programme focuses on the mindset of youth offenders and knife crime.
do you think knife crime is as big of problem as. the media portrays it to be ?
are you aware of any schemes put in place. ?
do you think more government money should be put toward helping youth offenders ?
What's. your opinion on the news over-dramatising knife crime in areas such as Croydon? Do you think they are represented well or do you think that the media ?
are they being treated right due to their actions. ?
what style would you make the documentary ?
what kind of person would you interview for this ?
do you think knife crime is as big of problem as. the media portrays it to be ?
are you aware of any schemes put in place. ?
do you think more government money should be put toward helping youth offenders ?
What's. your opinion on the news over-dramatising knife crime in areas such as Croydon? Do you think they are represented well or do you think that the media ?
are they being treated right due to their actions. ?
what style would you make the documentary ?
what kind of person would you interview for this ?
what I learnt ?
I interviewed student aged between 16-17, this fitted my target audience (14-24), I was interested to know what they know and what they are uneducated on. After doing the interviewer I discovered that they struggled to answer some of question, simply because they didn't know the answer, they didn't know the rate of knife crime and they we're surprised when they were told the facts and just how serious this topic is. The group know very basic information related to knife crime, such as what schools are trying to do to prevent knife crime and trying to educated student but unfortunately not doing enough still knife crime is still increasing and teens aren't as educated as they need to be. They are also know one or two that had been put in place to prevent knife crime, however they didn't know if the scheme were working or not, or the back story to them. I feel it helped doing this primary research because it lets me know what they know.
I interviewed student aged between 16-17, this fitted my target audience (14-24), I was interested to know what they know and what they are uneducated on. After doing the interviewer I discovered that they struggled to answer some of question, simply because they didn't know the answer, they didn't know the rate of knife crime and they we're surprised when they were told the facts and just how serious this topic is. The group know very basic information related to knife crime, such as what schools are trying to do to prevent knife crime and trying to educated student but unfortunately not doing enough still knife crime is still increasing and teens aren't as educated as they need to be. They are also know one or two that had been put in place to prevent knife crime, however they didn't know if the scheme were working or not, or the back story to them. I feel it helped doing this primary research because it lets me know what they know.
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Questions
1. what is it like to work with youth offenders ?
2. what was the most troubling case you've had?
3. What do you find to be the biggest cause. of teenagers turning to knife crime?
4. How common is knife crime, do you work with these particular issues daily?
5. what advice would you give to help troubled teenagers that are involved in knife crimes?
6. what information would give people to people to try to prevent knife crime ?
7. Because of your professional background in this field, do you think media portrays youth offenders accurately ?
8. do you think modern society has impacted the way the mind of youths work to commit a crime ?
9. In your years of experience has the rate of knife crime increased and decreased and why do you think this is?
10. have you got any last thoughts you think we missed or you would like to talk about?
1. what is it like to work with youth offenders ?
2. what was the most troubling case you've had?
3. What do you find to be the biggest cause. of teenagers turning to knife crime?
4. How common is knife crime, do you work with these particular issues daily?
5. what advice would you give to help troubled teenagers that are involved in knife crimes?
6. what information would give people to people to try to prevent knife crime ?
7. Because of your professional background in this field, do you think media portrays youth offenders accurately ?
8. do you think modern society has impacted the way the mind of youths work to commit a crime ?
9. In your years of experience has the rate of knife crime increased and decreased and why do you think this is?
10. have you got any last thoughts you think we missed or you would like to talk about?
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