Understanding and Preventing Membership of Criminal Gangs

6.5 hours of content. This course comprises the Street Gangs & Links to Organised Crime and Identifying Risk Factors for Gang Membership courses with added content not featuring in those courses. 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 was successfully diverted from the life before he got a criminal record or seriously injured. He now teaches professionals from across the world about gangs and exploitation and has taught hundreds of people from 58 countries.