The purpose of this scoping study was to update current knowledge of crossover youth; to determine whether data was available to identify communities where crossover youth come from, whether the data could be accessed for this purpose, and whether there was capability in New Zealand to do this. The findings in this paper give us the opportunity to find a pathway for communities to support their young people away from crime.
The result is a framework for a larger research study to answer such questions as where crossover youth come from regionally, by suburb, school, gang affiliation, family members in prison,
educational involvement; to identify where the data is and a process to gather that data and identify who could be involved.
(From the Executive summary). Record #6654