A Queensland youth crime prevention program has received national recognition at the Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards.
Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) Director Heather Cook said the Queensland Department of Youth Justice’s Intensive Case Management Program was one of two gold award winners.
Ms Cook said the awards recognised best practice in the prevention or reduction of violence and other types of crime and played a vital role in highlighting effective community-based initiatives to prevent crime and violence before it occurred.
She said the Queensland program was a community-led, evidence-based program designed to reduce youth offending.
“It provides an integrated framework to work intensively with young people assessed as having a high or very high risk of reoffending, as well as with their family and support network to address the causes of chronic offending and build their capacity to lead a good life.
“The model uses comprehensive offence profiling and mapping and coordinated stakeholder collaboration to achieve sustainable behavioural change with families.”
Ms Cook said the other Gold award winner was Victoria Police’s Public Transport Notification Project STOPIT, which provided victims of sexual harassment on Victorian public transport with the means and confidence to notify Victoria Police of this behaviour.
Griffith University’s Pathways to Prevention Project and the Queensland Police Service’s Repeat Offender Disruption Strategy both won Silver awards.
