There is a need for high quality training programs for low achievers, outreach initiatives to engage at risk youth and projects to motivate and support young people. Attaching young people to volunteer adult mentors for a year or more is a means of providing them with this support. Tackling drug misuse. A proportion of acquisitive crime is committed by users of hard drugs. There is also concern about alcohol misuse amongst the young.
Enforcement alone can have little impact.
Many of the preventive measures listed above may be expected to help reduce drug misuse. More specific preventive measures include peer led drug education, tighter restrictions on the marketing of alcoholic drinks to young people and services for drug misusers. Reducing nuisance and disorder . Young peoples' behaviour can cause a great deal of distress. In some neighbourhoods and public spaces such as parks and shopping malls, vandalism, noise, drunkenness or rowdiness can create a climate of fear and disorder.