Why police in schools won't reduce youth crime in Victoria
- Written by Diana Johns, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Melbourne
The Police Schools Involvement Program was abolished in Victoria in 2006. It is the only state without a police in schools program. In the 12 years since, the youth crime rate in Victoria has remained the lowest of all states in Australia (apart from the ACT) and the number of children involved in offending has dropped.
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