Responsibilities and Rights; Young People and Crime

Dobrinka Chankova, Tanya Poshtova

“VISTA School Bullying and Violence: Taking Action” project

Bulgarian

English

Responsibilities and Rights,young people,crime

training module

Parents, Policy Makers, Teachers, Researchers, Young People, School Directors.

1 - 20 pages

The contents of this unit are as follows:
- Description of the objectives of the document, which are to: be familiar with basic concepts of youth offending and punishment; be prepared to promote lawful behaviour among youth; consider strategies for crime prevention at school.
- Presentation of the facilitation skills to be developed through this unit, which are (1) knowledge and understanding of the range of underlying causes of challenging, aggressive and anti-social behavior; the range of provisions for pupils whose behaviour causes concern; the requirements of legislation and formal procedures relevant to aggressive and violent behaviour; (2) personal qualities and attributes include: empathy for and engaging pupils whose behaviour and attendance causes concern; the capacity to be a persuasive advocate for pupils - whether perpetrators, victims, assistants or witnesses; the ability to model effective management of pupils whose behaviour
causes concern.

Youth offending is not only a national problem. It is a permanent item on the agenda of different bodies and fora at supra-national level as well. The document reviews the role of schools in dealing with youth crime. There are number of bibliographic sources and links to other internet sources.

http://www.vista-europe.org/downloads/Bulgarian/C2f.pdf
The document is also available in EN language from the following link:
http://www.vista-europe.org/downloads/English/C2f.pdf

14_young people and crime.pdf

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