Download or read book Comparative approaches to urban crime prevention focusing on youth written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper looks at some of the concrete and effective approaches to urban crime prevention found in a range of countries in the North and the South, focusing on youth and youth gangs. [...] The marginalization and exclusion of those living in poverty has coincided with the breakdown of traditional family structures or social and cultural networks; the impact of HIV/AIDS; increased crime and violence in urban areas, including organized crime; increased trafficking in drugs and small arms; sexual exploitation and trafficking in persons; youth crime and victimization; and increased fear [...] The United Nations guidelines and principles for intervention in urban areas Since the approval of technical guidelines on crime prevention in 1997 and the adoption of ECOSOC resolution 2002/13, countries and cities have been able to refer to norms and standards for the development of crime prevention strategies and policies. [...] The segregation of cities, the clear links between the social exclusion of marginalized populations and the development and survival of organized armed groups, their institutionalization in some countries and cities, all point to the need to invest in other preventive approaches (Hagedorn, 2005; Standing, 2006). [...] Another example of an effective, integrated urban strategy is that of the City of Diadema in the district of Sao Paulo in Brazil, which had the highest level of homicides in the metropolitan area in 2000.