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Sport for Crime Prevention: Knife Crime in Birmingham - Coggle Diagram
Sport for Crime Prevention: Knife Crime in Birmingham
Popular Discourse in Sport
Sport can stimulate certain
societal outcomes
- including health, community, cohesion, integration of minorities and urban regeneration.
Low-cost, non-stigmatised
method for tackling youth crime levels.
More favourable way of tackling crime.
Sport brings about moral improvement.
Sport based initiatives are more
fun
and can
access hard-to-reach demographic groups
.
Historical Overview
Sport for crime prevention gained attention as part of New Labour's reform policies in the 1990s.
Emphasis on
voluntary sector
(Ekholm, 2013)
.
Sport is regarded as having a
moral
component, teaching
life-lessons
, contributing to
character building
and the development of
self-discipline
.
Statistics
Birmingham is ranked in the bottom
15%
nationally for violence and sexual offences.
18%
of all criminal offences in Birmingham are aged 10-18
(Sport4Life, 2019)
.
Young offenders
cost the economy around
£11bn/year
.
Prevention or Rehabilitation?
Prevention
- large scale
Rehabilitation
- smaller scale
Crime prevention:
diverting the person from a place or a time when they might otherwise be involved in crime.
'Sport saved me from a life of crime.' E.g. Barton and Pennant.
Attribute sport to putting them in a better place.
Rehabilitation improves
self-efficacy
,
self-esteem
etc.
Personal skills developed through sport can decrease likelihood of recommitting.