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One of the main interventions against violence and crime was that against gang violence. There has been creation of alternative activities and areas for youth rather than gang and delinquency. Community centers extracurricular activities, clubs mentoring and other programmes. Apart from alternatives to gang activity there have also been services to gang members such as counseling and leadership training. Preventing gun violence also is very linked to gang programmes. The most publicized programmes are the buy-back guns programmes in which they buy-back guns. The most common strategies and interventions are diversion programmers’, which include community service, skills development, counseling and mentoring. Victim offender is also used in conjunction with a diversion programme. There is still room for improvement that that skills training and poverty reduction should be Imported into diversion programmes. In some impoverished areas there is lack of resources in diversion programmes. Fewer probation officers are located longer distances. They made need to use school holidays provide transport or have shorter but more important programme to save time. In some communities diversion does not always work out to be positive. It takes the community along with the programmes and interventions to help combat and prevent crime amongst the youth. The most successful diversion programmes are those that provide adequate skill as part of the rehabilitation of the youth offender.
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