The Netherlands

Item does not contain fulltextThis chapter describes the background of the Communities That Care strategy in the Netherlands and the results of the Communities That Care Youth Survey. This was administered in 2011 as part of an effect study which was going on at that time. In this chapter we studied violence and youth delinquency, other problem behaviours, 20 risk factors and 10 protective factors, for 5887 youngsters. We show their scores on violent and delinquent acts, the prevalences of other problem behaviours and their associations. We also researched the association between violence and delinquency and the risk and protective factors in the domains of family, school, friends and community. With the use of logistic regression and odds ratios, possible effects are detected. We also used the population attributable fraction as a measure of exposure explained by risk factors and protective factors. In the third and last part, we researched the cumulative effect of the risk and protective factors when they are clustered together. This chapter confirms what we already know about problem behaviours and their predictors but throws fresh light on it. This chapter shows how violence and delinquency can be targeted by social policy and prevention