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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on July 28, 2006
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azl053
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Schools, Pupil Behaviour and Young Offenders: Using Postcode Classification to Target Behaviour Support and Crime Prevention Programmes

Carol Hayden 1 *, Tom Williamson 2, and Richard Webber 3

1 University of Portsmouth, St George’s Building, 141 High Street, Portsmouth, PO1 2HY
2 ICJS, University of Portsmouth
3 Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Carol Hayden, E-mail: carol.hayden{at}port.ac.uk


  Abstract

This article is concerned with the role and potential of school as a site for programmes designed to prevent and reduce anti-social and criminal behaviour from young people. It sets out to evaluate the relevance of ‘geodemographic’ analysis, based on the MOSAIC postcode classification system, for the targeting and development of appropriate behaviour support and youth crime prevention programmes in and around schools in different circumstances. We use youth crime data from Nottinghamshire, for a four-and-a-half-year period (1999-2003), as a case study, in order to demonstrate the relationship between patterns of youth offending and type of residential neighbourhood. The paper draws upon research from diverse sources in the fields of criminology, education and social policy in order to consider the possible use of geodemographic analysis to target school and neighbourhood programmes. It concludes by presenting some of the tensions in this role for schools.


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