Risk Identifiers for Gang Membership & Criminal Exploitation

Description

This course is designed as an entry level course teaching professional persons who deal with at risk people about he risk factors and signs that exist with those at risk of gang membership or criminal exploitation. Having identified risk students are given advice on how to deal with at risk persons and are given personal guidance on how to do this whilst remaining professional.

This is an international problem and is a growing threat. We discuss how preventing gang crime and exploitation is not the sole responsibility of a single agency. Everyone from parents, local authority to law enforcement have a duty to prevent this area of high harm criminality. Prevention is better than cure and we aim to equip professionals with the knowledge they need to identify those at risk or are actively involved in crime so that interventions and safeguarding can be implemented.

By the end of the course students will possess knowledge that will assist them with their work and will enable them to commence diversion proceedings with a view of supporting the at risk person away from a criminal life.

The course is delivered by Martyn Linton who was an at risk youth who got involved in a lower level street gang. He left the life behind after a chain of events and now teaches professionals how to respond to gangs and exploitation.

What You Will Learn!

• This course is will provide students with basic knowledge of gangs and the common risk factors that can lead to gang membership and criminal exploitation.
• What a gang is and the different types of gangs that exist. Why we should proactively look at other gang cultures and how they can feed into UK gang culture.
• We move into basic human needs as having a good understanding of this is vital when dealing with people, especially vulnerable people.
• We then examine a number of personal and wider risk factors that are common in those at rick or actively involved in gangs.
• The final section of the course examines methods of dealing with people who are at risk of gang membership and criminal exploitation.

Who Should Attend!

• Students
• Police Officers
• Social Workers
• Children's Support Workers/Carers
• Local Authority Staff
• Prison Officers
• Probation Officers
• Mental Health Professionals
• Youth Workers
• Persons Working With Vulnerable/At Risk People
• Persons Working With Vulnerable/At Risk People

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