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AbstractPurpose -This paper aims to review selected effective interventions (available in the United Kingdom) for middle childhood (9-13 years) to reduce the risk of, or current/subsequent involvement in, anti-social behaviour and criminality.Design/methodology/approach -Electronic databases and reviews of evidence-based effective programmes were searched to identify family, school, child and community programmes that are available in the United Kingdom.Findings -Despite current public policy emphasis on ''early intervention'', there are increasing numbers of effective interventions for this older age range available within the UK. Age-appropriate risk-reduction interventions reflect family, school, community, and peer influences.Originality/value -This paper, read in conjunction with other age-specific contributions in this volume, demonstrates the growing viability of evidence-based strategies that support children and their families to reduce known risk factors for behavioural problems, and respond to antisocial and criminal behaviour.Given the link between early involvement in criminal behaviour and ''life course persistent '' offending (Moffitt, 1993), the range of effective, universal, preventive interventions for this age group expands to include more targeted and intensive approaches. These include programmes that provide an ''indicated'' response to antisocial and criminal behaviour itself, with the aim of preventing recurrence. In this paper, we look briefly at the risk and protective factors that seemalbeit from imperfect knowledge (Rutter, 2010; Farrington et al., 2012) -to be salient for this age