Stop and Search
| DOI | 10.1177/026455050104800112 |
| Published date | 01 March 2001 |
| Date | 01 March 2001 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
being associated with higher offendmg
Youth Crime: Finding from the 1998/99
rates:
Youth Lifestyles Survey, 2000, by Claire
Flood-Page, Siobhan Campbell, Victoria
.
Using drugs. This was the strongest
predictor of serious
Harrington, and Joel Miller, Home
or persistent
Office Research
offendmg, linked
Study 209.
to offendmg rates up to
five times higher than those associated
Phillip Hoare
with non-drug users;
Probation Practice Supervisor,
Swansea Youth Offending Team
·
Disaffection from education or
persistent truancy;
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Lack of parental supervision;
Stop and Search
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Having friends or acquaintances who
This series of six papers from the Policing
had been in trouble with the police;
and Reducing Crime Unit, forms part of a
.
Hanging around m public places. This
broader research programme examining
increased the likelihood of offendmg by
the issue of stop and search in response to
nearly four times.
the Macpherson Report’s comments on the
lack of confidence
For 18-30
amongst minority
year old males, the
ethnic commumties in the use of
predictors
stop and
were similar, but heavy drinking
search.
and leaving school with no qualifications
were also important factors. Family
Evidence for Effectiveness - The first
influences in this latter group were less
paper in the series critically examines the
important, although associations with
evidence for the effectiveness of searches
delinquent friends and acquaintances
in reducing crime, and on their impact on
increased the chances of offending
the community. The broad picture which
fourfold.
emerges is that although they make a
notable contribution to arrests
The
by police
survey highlights the startling
findings that &dquo;The UK has
forces, searches seem to have a small
more 15-16
impact on the detection and prevention of
year old drug users than any other
crime. There is also
European country&dquo; and that &dquo;A total of
a substantial vanation
in the extent to which forces
about 8 million school days
rely on the
are said to be
lost each
practice.
year as a result of...
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