Taking the Whole System Approach to Tackling Youth Violence

Описание: How the UK is shifting the focus of a long-running problem and taking a whole-system approach to stop youth violence

This video is part of a series for the Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety & Justice initiative.

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In January 2021, Salzburg Global Seminar began implementing a major multi-year initiative, Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety and Justice, in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the David Rockefeller Fund to tackle youth violence and promote youth safety and criminal justice reform.

Goals
The Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety and Justice initiative is founded on the premise that serial failures to redress social, legal, and economic injustice and structural racism underpin societal violence and disproportionally shape politics, policing and judicial systems around the world.

To address this, the initiative focuses on three different levels of intervention:
Individuals’ lived experiences
Individual and community interactions with systems of authority and law and order
System/institutional mandates, funding, staffing, metrics and accountability

Its ultimate long-term goals are to:
Enhance community safety and cohesion
Reduce violence, crime and incarceration
Transform judicial and prison systems

Process
Through regular online convenings, the first phase initiative has engaged 67 participants—known as Salzburg Global Fellows—from 19 countries. in wide ranging conversations, and focused on sharing information and experiences. These meetings brought together activists, formerly incarcerated persons, policymakers, public officials, researchers, and social entrepreneurs in order to identify and evaluate approaches, tools and technologies in four specific fields:

New intervention points that could have long-term benefits for reducing violence, injustice, racism, and implicit bias/prejudice in and outside criminal justice systems.
Multi-country comparisons, focusing initially on national/subnational jurisdictions that have pioneered successful approaches in criminal justice policy and practice.
Direct engagement of people and communities of color and other marginalized communities to learn from and amplify their voices.
New initiatives to change attitudes, behaviors, and investments, responding to racial and social justice protests in the United States and around the world and to risks and demands driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.

These discussions highlighted in particular initiatives that focus on young men aged 18-26, as these men fall outside of most juvenile justice reforms but are still developing their identity and full cognitive maturity. These characteristics make their engagement a particularly powerful lever for youth violence reduction overall.

Outcome
The immediate outcome of this first phase of the initiative, with its focus on information collection and sharing, is the report: https://reports.salzburgglobal.org/yo.... It is divided into five sections:
1. Culture of Justice
2. Public Health Approach
3. Data and Metrics
4. Public Communication
5. Youth Violence and Safety

Based on the growing consensus that effective criminal justice reform should look beyond the criminal justice system, each section considers community-centered, cross-sectoral approaches and socially integrative methods of engaging young people and violent offenders before, during, and after they encounter the criminal justice system.