Youth crime prevention and school civic education in England - selected issues.

The issues of crime among youth are included in the citizenship education in England. The multi-facet understanding of crime is developed especially on the Key Stage 3. The citizenship education may be perceived - to some extend - as a transmitter of crime prevention among the youth. Thus, the author wanted to analyze how crime and crime prevention is presented in the strategic governmental documents on citizenship education. The aim of the paper is to analyze crime prevention among the youth in citizenship education in England. Moreover, in order to gain a broader perspective on the subject in question, the selected textbooks for citizenship education were analyzed in the context of crime. The presented problems are located in the socio-political and educational contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]