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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Children’s Street Connections in a Canadian Community

Robert V. J. Basso

Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada

John Graham

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 525 Belmont Ave. West, Suite 101, Kitchener, Ontario N2M 5E2, Canada

William Pelech

University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Professional Faculties Bldg., Room 3248, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada

Ted DeYoung

Waterloo Region District School Board, 51 Ardelt Ave., Kitchener, Ontario N2C 2R5, Canada

Ray Cardey

Waterloo Catholic District School Board, 91 Moore Ave., Kitchener, Ontario N2G 4G2, Canada

Preteen children’s street activities in a small southern Ontario city were examined for understandings about how children on the street affiliate with one another and with adults after school. The everyday connections between children, shopkeepers, and municipal workers demonstrate that the municipal workers and merchants can offer caring, support, and sanctions to children when parents or teachers are not accompanying them. This provides children on the street with a form of guidance from extrafamilial mentors. The findings point to community-based potentials for naturally occurring crime prevention strategies, a significant aspect of Canada’s new law: Youth Criminal Justice Act, 2003.

Key Words: crime prevention • extrafamilial youth mentors • unaccompanied youth

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 48, No. 2, 189-202 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X03258479
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