Understanding & Preventing Membership of Criminal Gangs

Learn how gangs work and how to help prevent gang membership.

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Understanding & Preventing Membership of Criminal Gangs

What You Will Learn!

The importance of personal knowledge
The basic components that make a gang.
The different types of gangs that exist and how they share similarities.
How gangs form an identity and how important their identities are to them.
How gang territory works and the importance of understanding this when dealing with people involved in gangs.
The different level that gangs operate at, how this links into crime and this can impact on diverting people away from gangs/crime.
Reasons people join gangs and how exploitation and grooming takes place.
How gang initiations fit into gang membership and the common initiation types.
Common crime types and how street gangs link into organised crime.
How violence fits into the world of gangs.
Barriers that exist that prevent people making disclosures to professionals.
Signs to look for that may indicate a person is involved in gangs or exploitation.
The importance of partnership working and safeguarding.
Basic human needs and why this is vital when dealing with people, especially vulnerable people.
Identifying personal and wider risk factors that are common in those at risk or actively involved in gangs.

Description

This course is a fully packed course that is written at beginner level and is aimed at professionals who work with gang members or those at risk of becoming gang members. It will also benefit those who work with victims of criminal exploitation at the hands of criminal gangs and organised crime groups.

In this course we teach you everything you need to know from what a gang is through to how they operate, how to identify those who may get involved in gangs and how to deal with those that are involved.

Gangs and the associated criminality are 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 in his youth a member of a low level street gang. He left the life behind after a chain of events and now teaches professionals how to respond to gangs and exploitation.