Youth Afterschool Programs and Law Enforcement

Youth Afterschool Program and Law Enforcement reports on a national survey of youth-serving organizations to discover the dimensions of crime affecting these organizations during nonschool hours and what approaches they use to prevent such crime. Recent findings show that children and teens are most vulnerable either to committing or being a victim of crime between 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The survey, conducted by LINC and seven national youth organizations and their local affiliates, found that local affiliates of national organizations serve many children and teenagers at high risk for crime and delinquency and, to the extent that these local affiliates are themselves imperiled by crime and violence, they are likely to enlist police assistance in implementing prevention programs.