Intervention and Responding to Internet Addiction of Minors Under the Perspective of Community Policing
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With the increasing popularity of Internet use among minors in China, more and more minors appear to use the Internet excessively and even become addicted to it. Community policing, as an important force of community collaborative governance, plays an irreplaceable role in intervening and responding to juvenile Internet addiction behaviors. In the practice of community policing, it is found that the prevention and suppression of minors’ Internet addiction behavior also needs the information-sharing, coordination and cogovernance of multiple social actors. This paper collects the work of the community police in preventing and curbing the excessive use of the Internet by minors, focusing on profile of Internet-addicted minors, definition, causes and harmful consequences of such deviant behavior. At the same time, based on the deviant behavior theory and the practical experience of community policing, this paper, from two aspects of prevention and suppression, aims to further improve the on-going collaborative intervention mechanism of «police-home-school-community» through sharing, coordination and co-governance directed against minors’ Internet addiction.

Keywords:
deviant behavior, minors’ internet addiction, community policing, sharing, coordination and co-governance, collaborative intervention mechanism
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