Since the beginning of the 1990s increasing attention has been paid to youth participation as part of the national and urban youth policy. Participation projects have recently been set up in which young people at risk are involved in the prevention of (nuisance and) crime (CPP projects: crime prevention participation projects). Nuisance or crime problems among young people are the reason for setting up a CPP project. It is often the case that alternative solutions have been exhausted, which is why (new) ways of involving young people themselves are sought. The Ministry of Justice decided to launch an investigation in order to gain (more) insight into what has been set up and implemented in this area. Offender-based prevention has a place of its own within the CPP approach. This concerns a relatively new form of offender-based prevention aimed at young people at risk. The position of the CPP projects lies between the more social-preventative 'welfare projects' on the one hand, and Projects in which young people - who have committed an offence - are given an alternative sanction on the other. The objective of the investigation is to catalogue the nature and scope of CPP projects and to gain a clear image of the successful and less successful projects. The secondary objective is to assist bodies involved with young people and juvenile crime - such as the police, youth-work organisations, the Halt agency and so on -. These bodies are interested in what can be done with young people at risk outside of the more judicial channels. The investigation was set up in stages and comprises two separate parts. The first part has an orientating character: which (types of) CPP projects have been developed and implemented in the Netherlands. Central to the second part, the in-depth stage, are the experiences and success and failure factors of a number of CPP projects.(A)
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