ITER European Project

Previous studies reveal that juvenile delinquencyand violence are complicated problems due to many causes. The sequence of the facts is appear in the following way: 1.The family delegates to the school the educational task 2.The professor prefers to instruct than to educate but, if he/she exercises as tutor or educator, he/she is discredited by the minor's parents 3.The minor takes advantage due to the lack of hierarchy, he/she takes the control and the power (invested hierarchy). 4.Often the police is called to act as substitute parental figure , but the police, accustomed to practise repressive functions, wonder what new functions they should assume and how to be more efficient.

The multi professional nets of support and prevention are necessary for the decrease of the youth's violent behavior. In fact, the integration of the Security Forces in this net has allowed an important decrease of the school absenteeism in the Educational Centers where protocols of combined performance have been carried out, as well as a decrease of street incidences.

ITER European Project

With this in mind, the provincial council of Alicante has designed a series of police itineraries in a multi professional network for the prevention of juvenile delinquency which is undertaken by the ITER European Project, included in Leonardo da Vinci Programme from European Union.

The main objective of the project is to attain the involvement of all those working in and responsible for, young learner education, through the creation of a cooperation network geared at avoiding delinquency and juvenile violence. ITER wants to increase the involvement of policy bodies to prevent juvenile violence, to improve the interaction between the Police and those families which have the problem and to promote cooperation between the different associations and organisations involved in this field.