Developmental Prevention
Definition
Prevention timed to specific developmental stages, such as infancy, early childhood or the transition to adolescence, on the premise that risk factors accumulate across the life course.
Related terms
- Diversion
- Handling a child's case outside formal judicial proceedings, for example through caution, mediation or community-based measures, so that the criminal process itself...
- Primary Prevention
- Universal measures aimed at an entire population or community, delivered before any risk has been identified in a specific child.
- Risk and Protective Factors
- Measurable individual, family, peer, school and community conditions that longitudinal research links to a raised or lowered likelihood of offending.
- Secondary Prevention
- Targeted measures aimed at children already showing elevated risk factors or early problem behaviour, before formal offending begins.
- Tertiary Prevention
- Measures aimed at children who have already offended, intended to stop reoffending and support desistance.