Crime prevention lessons “essential” for protecting children from violent crimes, new report says
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A new report has found that ten to 18-year-olds are more likely to be victims of crime than any other group, but only three in 20 violent crimes against children are reported, despite serious injuries.
The report by Victim Support and the University of Bedfordshire, Suffering in Silence: Children and Unreported Crime, was published today for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Victims and Witnesses of Crime.
The report finds that some young people perceive crimes including robbery, theft and assault as a “normal part of growing up” and many young victims do not report crimes. It also suggests that children and young people need to be given lessons in crime prevention and what to do if they are the victim of crime in the same way as they are taught about sex, alcohol and drugs.
Many children said they did not trust police so would not tell them if they were a victim of crime and others said they worried police would not believe them or would discriminate against them because of the...
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