Multimedios

Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development provides a registry of evidence-based positive youth development programs designed to promote the health and well-being of children and teens. The database, run by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder, reviewed more than 1,400 programs and designated 5% as model and promising, following a strict selection process. 

Crime Solutions is a central resource of justice-related programs and practices with evidence of effectiveness, run by the US National Institute of Justice.  Their purpose is to assist in decision-making and program implementation by gathering information on specific justice-related programs and practices and reviewing the existing evaluation and meta-analysis research against standardized criteria.

The National Crime Prevention Strategy - NCPS is based on the premise that well-designed interventions can have a positive influence on behaviours; crimes can be reduced or prevented by addressing risk factors that can lead to offending. Successful interventions have been shown to reduce not only victimization, but also the social and economic costs that result from criminal activities and the costs related to processing cases in the criminal justice system.

Por Mimi Yagoub

Un tiroteo entre la policía militar y las pandillas en una emblemática favela de Rio de Janeiro terminó con la caída de un helicóptero y el asesinato de por lo menos once personas el fin de semana que pasó, mientras la violencia se recrudece en toda la ciudad gracias al debilitamiento de las fuerzas de seguridad y al envalentonamiento de los grupos criminales.

Por Luis Fernando Alonso y David Gagne

El merodeo de piratas representa una amenaza cada vez mayor a lo largo del río Amazonas en Brasil, informa el New York Times, pero este punto remoto no es el único lugar de Latinoamérica donde la piratería está cobrando importancia en términos de seguridad.