Designing a Police Strategic Model for the Prevention of Child and Adolescent Crimes

Having a crime prevention model suitable for minors and adolescents, it can help the police to advance one of their goals, which is to crime prevention The purpose of this research is to design a strategic police model for the Prevention of Child and Adolescent Crimes.

This study is of a developmental type, and from a methodological perspective, qualitative research and data base technique used to achieve the pattern. The statistical community in this study are experts and activists in the field of prevention of child and adolescent crimes (directors of corrections and training center of tehran province) and senior police officers (honest people and related to crime prevention). With 22 experts by targeted sampling until the answers reach perfectionism were interviewed.

In this study, 290 subcategories and 40 main categories (causal factors 5 categories, axial phenomenon 9 categories, contextual factors 8 categories, interfering factors 9 categories, strategies 4 categories and consequences 5 main categories) were extracted.

Police with a process-oriented strategy (organization agility, increase communication, technical and perceptual skills of employees, reduce parallel costs, etc), and with situational strategies (giving more decision-making power to social police officers, confronting conflicting subcultures and sexual dissemination networks in cyberspace, implementation of preventive traffic restrictions, cleaning neighborhoods, disturbed property market disruption, cyberspace control, arrest and detention, crime detection) and with community-based strategies (educational-oriented programs using the capacity of schools, media, religious institutions, etc.) and with a participatory and multidisciplinary prevention strategy (launching a crime prevention monitoring system with a focus on NAJA, collaborate with educational, health, social, religious, judicial institutions, urban planners and technology) can play a key role in Prevention of Child and Adolescent Crimes.