ABSTRACT
This chapter examines police collaboration with other institutions in providing knowledge of risk regarding one particular population category namely, youth. It considers why the police pay particular attention to young people, followed by an empirical analysis of three specific programmes in which the police join with other institutions to govern the young. In school-based programmes, police officers function simultaneously as security educators, informant system operators, counsellors and gatekeepers for special programmes that deal with youths at risk. In deselection programmes for high-risk youths, the police rely on their own surveillance systems, along with those of other institutions, to calibrate the degrees to which the chosen few should be excluded from social life. An analysis of police programmes in schools illustrates how they join with other institutions in governing the young. In order to prevent children and youths from being unaccounted for, police organizations mobilize 'street-proofing' projects.
