TY - JOUR AB - The JA_SICHER study, funded by the KIRAS Security Research Programme, investigated the mechanisms of mobile youth work. These offers to juveniles in the public sphere provide complex security work taking the communal level into account. The project used elaborate methodological tools to generate meaningful insights and derive evidence-based recommendations for the optimisation of mobile youth work and social peace in the community. The article resents selected findings from the impact assessment, in which the selection criterion was relevant to the police's security and prevention work. The various methodological evaluations initially showed a significant tolerance-enhancing role model effect on the basis of trusting relationships between juveniles and youth workers, for example, in the dimensions of gender, sexual orientation, as well as national or ethnic origin. They reveal the large potential of mobile youth work to promote de-escalated ways of dealing with conflicts that are also oriented towards understanding. The data obtained also show a statistically demonstrable link between interventions of mobile youth work and the reduction of offences with juvenile suspects – both in general and also in terms of specific offences such as bodily harm. The achievable effects concerning the handling of legal requirements and prohibitions in general, as well as in terms of various types of addictive drugs, are more heterogeneous. However, mobile youth work also has a significant impact here, especially in long-term contact with juveniles. In practice, the interface design between youth workers and the police requires a professionally reflected alternation between proximity and distance in order to ensure supportive relationships in the overlapping areas of professional activity. AU - Mayrhofer, Hemma AU - Bengesser, Andreas DO - 10.7396/IE_2017_C ET - 9/2017 KW - KIRAS JA SICHER mobile youth work LA - eng M1 - International Edition PY - 2017 SN - 1813-3495 SP - 20-31 ST - Mobile Youth Work as a Complex Security Measure. Insights from the KIRAS Project JA_SICHER T2 - SIAK-Journal − Journal for Police Science and Practice TI - Mobile Youth Work as a Complex Security Measure. Insights from the KIRAS Project JA_SICHER UR - https://www.bmi.gv.at/104/Wissenschaft_und_Forschung/SIAK-Journal/internationalEdition/files/Mayrhofer_IE_2017.pdf VL - 7 ID - 597 ER -