Evaluation of a Court-Ordered Violence Prevention Program for Gun-involved Youths

IF 1.5 1区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI:10.1177/15412040231216703

N. Hipple, Theodore S. Lentz

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Abstract

As youth gun violence continues to plague marginalized US communities, knowledge about “what works” to prevent injury and illegal gun activity within this population remains a contentious and pressing issue. This study investigates the impacts of Project Life—an education-based youth gun violence prevention program—on recidivism outcomes for a sample of 368 youths in Indianapolis, Indiana, between 2015 and 2019. We conducted retrospective outcome analyses to compare youths who completed the program (83%) to youths who did not complete the program. We find that youths who completed the program were significantly less likely to recidivate with a gun violence offense within an average follow-up period of 1.5 years following enrollment in the program. Youths who spent more time incarcerated and had a parent who was incarcerated were at higher recidivism risk when controlling for prior history of offending and other key risk factors. These nonexperimental findings show short-term promise for education-based violence prevention programming for youths at risk with fewer concerns of widening the net of carceral punishment.

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针对涉枪青少年的法院强制暴力预防计划的评估

由于青少年枪支暴力问题一直困扰着美国的边缘化社区，因此，了解在这一人群中预防伤害和非法枪支活动的 "有效方法 "仍然是一个有争议且紧迫的问题。本研究调查了 "生命项目"（一项基于教育的青少年枪支暴力预防计划）对印第安纳州印第安纳波利斯市 368 名青少年在 2015 年至 2019 年间累犯结果的影响。我们进行了回顾性结果分析，将完成计划的青少年（83%）与未完成计划的青少年进行了比较。我们发现，完成计划的青少年在参加计划后平均 1.5 年的随访期内再次犯下枪支暴力罪行的可能性大大降低。在控制之前的犯罪史和其他关键风险因素的情况下，被监禁时间更长、父母一方被监禁的青少年再次犯罪的风险更高。这些非实验性研究结果表明，针对高危青少年开展以教育为基础的暴力预防计划具有短期前景，同时也减少了扩大监禁惩罚网的担忧。

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Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides academics and practitioners in juvenile justice and related fields with a resource for publishing current empirical research on programs, policies, and practices in the areas of youth violence and juvenile justice. Emphasis is placed on such topics as serious and violent juvenile offenders, juvenile offender recidivism, institutional violence, and other relevant topics to youth violence and juvenile justice such as risk assessment, psychopathy, self-control, and gang membership, among others. Decided emphasis is placed on empirical research with specific implications relevant to juvenile justice process, policy, and administration. Interdisciplinary in scope, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice serves a diverse audience of academics and practitioners in the fields of criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, behavior analysis, sociology, law, counseling, public health, and all others with an interest in youth violence and juvenile justice.