Shanghai to Combat Juvenile Crime by Nonnatives

上海采取措施遏制来沪未成年人违法犯罪上升

Xinhua News, 2009-07-15

At a recent press conference, the Shanghai Neighborhood Youth Affairs Office released statistics showing a 56% growth in juvenile crime from 2004 to 2008. The proportion of those crimes committed by nonnative Shanghaiese—“youths coming to Shanghai to work, study and live”—increased from 51% to 76% over the same period. To combat this increase, the local government will focus on “advance prevention, critical prevention and recidivist prevention,” including sending social workers into schools for migrant workers' children to offer “education on mental health, legal knowledge and domestic relationships,” with special attention to be paid to “troubled students.”