Assault
Knowing what to do starts with knowing what works, and what hasn't. CrimeSolutions helps practitioners and policymakers understand what programs & practices work, are promising, or haven't worked yet.
On this page you can find programs and practices related to Assault. Select "Search Filters" to narrow down the list by rating, extent of evidence, and many other aspects of the programs or practices. Skip to Practices
CrimeSolutions’ ratings are assigned from standardized reviews of rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses. While we encourage you to learn more about this process, you don’t need to in order to benefit from it. Our clear ratings and profiles can help you determine if a program or category of program is worth pursuing.
| Icon | Rating | Program Rating Description | Practice Rating Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Effective | Implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
|
|
Promising | Implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s) | On average, there is some evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
|
|
No Effects | Implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s) and may result in a negative outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will not achieve the intended outcome or may result in a negative outcome. |
Programs
Showing Results For:
Topic: assault| Title | Evidence Rating | Topics | Summary | RCT | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Profile: Denver (Colorado) Crime Gun Intelligence Center |
|
Violent crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Law enforcement, Arrests, Databases, Evidence, Policing strategies, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Courts, Law enforcement operations, Investigations | The program focuses on reducing violent gun crime by disrupting the cycle of gun violence by relying on forensic science and data analysis to identify, investigate, and prosecute individuals who use guns in criminal activity, and the sources of their guns. The program is rated No Effects. The program did not significantly affect homicides or aggravated assaults with a firearm but was shown to significantly reduce violent crime and robbery with a firearm. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Bringing in the Bystander High School Curriculum |
|
Stalking, Violent crime, Assault, Dating violence, School climate, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | The goal of this bystander-focused, classroom-delivered curriculum is to reduce rates of interpersonal violence among high school students. The program is rated No Effects. The program had no statistically significant impact on various measures of interpersonal violence, victim empathy, and measures of proactive bystander behavior. There was a statistically significant decrease for the treatment group in bystander denial about the role students could play in preventing interpersonal violence. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Rowan (United Kingdom) |
|
Arson, Burglary, Assault, Robbery, Sensors/Surveillance, Patrol, Law enforcement, Sanctions, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Crime prevention, Victims of crime | This program involves 15 minutes of police patrol in high-crime hot spots to reduce crime. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in reports of violent crimes and robbery and other crimes against personal victims in hot spots on treatment days, compared with control days. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Police Body-Worn Video (Australia) |
|
Assault, Sensors/Surveillance, Patrol, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Equipment and technology | This program involves police use of video to improve evidence gathering and police and citizen behavior. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in restraining orders issued or assaults on police between body-worn video treatment days and control days (when no officers wore body-worn video). Treatment days had statistically significantly higher rates of use of force, citizen complaints against police, and criminal charges, compared with control days. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Tulsa (Oklahoma) Community-Based Crime Reduction Initiative |
|
Burglary, Assault, Community policing, Patrol, Environmental design, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Law enforcement | This is a police-driven, collaborative, place-based crime-reduction approach focused on a target neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. The program is rated Promising. The initiative resulted in statistically significant reductions in total crime in both areas of the target neighborhood at the two post-intervention periods and a statistically significant reduction in burglary in one area. There were no statistically significant reductions in disorderly offenses and mixed results on the number of assaults. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Police Substation Within a Business Improvement District in Newark, New Jersey |
|
Burglary, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Environmental design, Crime prevention, Property crime, Larceny/theft, Violent crime | This is a police substation operating within a business improvement district in Newark (N.J.) with the goal of reducing crime in the target area. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in burglary and motor vehicle theft in the treated area compared with a control area over the entire 6-year postintervention period. There were no statistically significant differences in robbery, aggravated assault, or theft from auto. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Philadelphia (Pa.) Predictive Policing Experiment (3PE) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Vehicles, Patrol, Environmental design, Policing strategies, Property crime, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Law enforcement operations | This strategy sought to reduce crime in Philadelphia by testing three different patrol strategies. The program is rated No Effects. Relative to control areas, there was no statistically significant difference in violent or property crimes in areas using one of two of the patrol strategies. Property crimes in an area using one of the strategies saw a statistically significant decrease, while there was a statistically significant increase in violent crime in areas using two of the strategies. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Vacant Lot Greening Program |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Gun violence, Robbery, Environmental design, Crime prevention, Property crime, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Assault, Gun violence, Violent crime, Public order offenses, Crime prevention | This was an intervention to reduce crime and delinquency in urban areas by remediating vacant land. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the control area, treatment areas experienced statistically significant reductions in gun assaults, burglary, nuisances, shootings (overall and per kilometer), and all crimes overall. However, the intervention showed mixed results with regard to drug offense rates and no statistically significant effect on robbery/theft rates. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Milwaukee’s (Wis.) Closed-Circuit Television Camera Program |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Sensors/Surveillance, Surveillance, Environmental design, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), Arrests, Equipment and technology | This is a police-operated public surveillance program that seeks to reduce crime and increase crime clearances (i.e., arrests) by installing new closed-circuit television cameras at high-crime, high-traffic intersections in Milwaukee (Wis.). The program is rated Promising. Intersections in intervention areas where new cameras were installed had a statistically significant higher rate of crime clearances for all crime types, compared with intersections in comparison areas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) (Massachusetts) |
|
Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Violent offenders, Jobs and workforce development, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18), Young adults (18-24), Gangs | This secondary violence prevention program targets young men most likely to commit or be victim of gang or gun crime to reduce their incarceration and victimization from violent crime. The program is rated Promising. SSYI youths were statistically significantly less likely to be incarcerated compared with comparison group youths. SSYI–funded cities had statistically significant reductions in all measured city-level crime victimization rates, compared with comparison cities. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Second Responder Program for Men (Ontario, Canada) |
|
Crime prevention, Intimate partner violence, Assault | This is a program for moderate- and high-risk males accused of assaulting their intimate partners. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the comparison group, program participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of being charged with any new domestic, property, or administrative offense and of having contact with the police. There was no statistically significant difference between groups on likelihood of being charged with a new violent offense. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Street Lighting in New York City Public Housing |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Regulatory offenses, Weapons violations, Assault, Carjacking, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Environmental design, Crime prevention, Violent crime | This is a temporary outdoor street-lighting program designed to reduce nighttime crime in public housing developments experiencing elevated crime rates. The program is rated Promising. Installing additional light towers in treated developments resulted in statistically significant reductions in complaints of index crimes, felony crimes, assaults, homicides, and weapons crimes at night, compared with control developments. There were no statistically significant differences in misdemeanor crimes. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Kansas City (MO) No Violence Alliance |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Arrests | This is a focused deterrence violence-reduction strategy. The goal was to lower the city’s exposure to violent crime, including reducing the numbers of homicides and aggravated assaults committed by chronic violent individuals operating within organized groups and other social networks. The program is rated No Effects. Two years postimplementation, there was no statistically significant impact on homicides, group-member-involved homicides, and aggravated assaults. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Crime Hot Spots Intervention (Sacramento, Calif.) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Robbery, Patrol, Situational crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Problem-oriented policing | This program involved officers patrolling crime hot spots in roughly 15-minute intervals to reduce crime. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in aggregated Part 1 crimes and Part 1 property crimes in the treatment hot spots, compared with control areas, during the 90-day intervention period, when compared with the same period 1 year prior. However, there was no statistically significant effect on calls for service, soft crime, and Part 1 violent crimes Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: A Safety Awareness Program (ASAP) for Women with Disabilities |
|
Assault | This program is designed to increase safety awareness, knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, and behaviors as well as increase social support among women with disabilities. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to produce a statistically significant increase among participants’ scores on measures of safety planning, safety knowledge, and safety-promoting behaviors, compared with non-participants. The groups did not differ on measures of safety awareness following the intervention. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Texas Intensive Supervision Parole (Houston and Dallas) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Homicide, Robbery, Drug testing, Parole, Drug possession, Community corrections, Prisons, Reentry | This program was designed to increase monitoring and control of persons on parole who demonstrated poor parole performance and were at high risk of returning to prison for a parole violation. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in reconviction, rearrest, and employment rates between groups in both Houston and Dallas. In Houston, program participants were significantly more likely to have technical violations than those in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Group Violence Reduction Strategy (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Violent offenders, Surveillance, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Homicide, Crime prevention, Gun violence, Assault, Violent crime | This focused deterrence strategy in New Orleans, Louisiana, aims to reduce gang violence and homicide. The program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions found in overall homicide, firearm-related homicide, gang member-involved homicide, and firearm assault from the pretest to the posttest period. Further, New Orleans showed significantly decreased homicide rates after the program was implemented, compared with 14 cities with similar violent crime rates. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Directed Patrol and Self-Initiated Enforcement in Hot Spots (St. Louis, Missouri) |
|
Assault, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations | This experiment assessed the impact of two hot spots policing tactics on firearm violence. The program is rated Promising. Compared with comparison hot spots, hot spots that received self-initiated enforcement experienced a statistically significant reduction in firearm assault rates, but there were no statistically significant differences for hot spots that received directed patrol. There was no statistically significant effect on firearm robbery rates between treatment and comparison hot spots Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: The Women's Program |
|
Girls, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Stalking, Assault, Underage drinking, Campus Crime, Coping, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Schools, Crisis response | This is a sexual assault risk-reduction program that is designed to teach college women bystanders about sexual assault, characteristics of men who perpetrate the crime, and how to intervene. The program is rated Promising. Experimental group participants demonstrated statistically significant increases in their ability and willingness to intervene, compared with control group participants. However, there was no statistically significant impact on rape myth acceptance. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Cardiff (Wales) Violence Prevention Programme (CVPP) |
|
Assault, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Arrests, Violent crime | This program consisted of a multi-agency partnership to prevent violence and reduce violence-related emergency room admissions in Cardiff, Wales. The program is rated Promising. The program showed a statistically significant reduction in the rates of total assaults, wounding assaults, and hospital admissions related to violence, compared with the comparison sites. However, there were no statistically significant differences between Cardiff and the comparison sites in the rate of common assaults. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Cognitive-Processing Therapy for Female Victims of Sexual Assault |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Stalking, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Grief, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This is a cognitive therapeutic program that is intended to assist female victims of sexual assault with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The overall goal is to restructure unbalanced thoughts directly related to the trauma. The program is rated Effective. Women in the treatment group demonstrated reduced symptoms of both PTSD and depression, compared with women in the control group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: New York Integrated Domestic Violence Courts |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Domestic violence courts, Family courts, Diversion, Courts, Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention | This program is a problem-solving court that is part of a unified “one family-one judge” model, which means all criminal, family, and matrimonial cases involving the same family are handled by one judge. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in re-arrests and conviction rates when comparing the IDV court cases with traditional family court cases. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: New York's Criminal Domestic Violence Courts |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Domestic violence courts, Family courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Diversion, Violent crime | The program is a problem-solving court that operate a specialized caseload for domestic violence-related cases only, and for which eligibility is determined on a case-by-case basis. Criminal domestic violence courts tend to be more common throughout the U.S. The program is rated No Effects. The criminal domestic violence courts in New York statistically significantly reduced case-processing time, but there was no statistically significant impact on recidivism. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Program |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Campus Crime, Coping, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a rape prevention program for college students, designed to teach about the prevalence of sexual assault, distinguish between rape myths and facts, identify risky situations, and teach techniques to use in a risky situation. The program was rated No Effects. The program had a statistically significant effect on self-efficacy and self-protective dating behaviors, but did not impact sexual victimization, sexual aggression, attitudes toward women, rape empathy, or sexual communication. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Movimiento Ascendencia (Pueblo, Colo.) |
|
Girls, Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Weapons violations, Assault, Afterschool, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | A culturally focused, gender-specific program that provides young females, primarily Mexican American, alternatives to substance abuse and gang involvement. The program is rated Promising. The program significantly reduced self-reports of damaging property; stealing more than $50; and buying, selling, or holding stolen goods. However, it had no impact on self-esteem, grades in school, concealing of weapons, and stealing less than $50. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Rochester (N.Y.) Domestic Violence Court Judicial Monitoring |
|
Assault, Domestic violence courts, Problem-solving courts, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This program was designed to provide judicial monitoring of people convicted of domestic violence through frequent court appearances before a judge. The goal was to ensure compliance with program requirements and deter future violence and re-abuse of victims. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention group and control group in rearrests, attendance at court-ordered programs, or completion of programs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Minneapolis Center for Victim-Offender Mediation |
|
Assault, Mediators, Restitution, Violent offenders, Property crime, Victims of crime, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a restorative justice program that provides juveniles who have been convicted of an offense and their victims the opportunity to meet face to face in the presence of a mediator to discuss the offense. The program is rated Promising. Individuals in the program were statistically significantly more likely to complete their restitution obligation. There was a statistically significant impact on victim satisfaction with the justice system, but there was no statistically significant impact on Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Supporting Adolescents with Guidance and Employment (SAGE) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Violent offenders, Youth development, Jobs and workforce development, Positive youth development, Recreation, Young juvenile offenders, Employment initiatives | This is a violence prevention program designed to reduce problem behaviors in African American male adolescents. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between participants in the intervention and control groups in overall problem behaviors, violent behaviors, or risky behaviors. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Peers Making Peace |
|
Assault, Dropout/expulsion, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a peer-mediation program designed to handle conflicts both in and out of school and to help maintain drug-free schools. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group had statistically significantly fewer assaults, expulsions, discipline referrals, absences, a greater improvement in self-efficacy, and statistically significantly improved in academic performance, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Hardcore (Los Angeles, CA) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Assault, Homicide, Prosecution, Witnesses, Case Management, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention | This program consists of a judicial intervention, which seeks to improve the prosecution of gang-related crimes. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group cases were associated with a statistically significant greater number of convictions and incarcerations of gang members, and a lower number of case dismissals and rejections, compared with control group cases. However, there was no statistically significant effect on the rate of pleas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD) |
|
Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a community-based program to reduce underage drinking and alcohol-related offenses. The program is rated Promising. Intervention sites reported statistically significant reductions in DUI and nighttime crashes, average drinking quantity and variance, police-reported assaults, and EMS calls involving assault and motor vehicle crashes, compared with control sites. There was no difference in ED assaults, police reports of public drunkenness, or EMS calls involving alcohol or other drugs. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Impact (Newark, New Jersey) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Policing strategies | This was a saturation foot-patrol initiative implemented in Newark, N.J., in 2008 that aimed to reduce violent crime. The program is rated Promising. The target area that implemented the initiative experienced statistically significant reductions in overall violence and incidences of aggravated assault and shootings, compared with the control area. However, there was no statistically significant effect on incidences of murder or robbery. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Safe Street Teams (Boston, MA) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Law enforcement | This is a place-based, problem-oriented policing strategy implemented by the Boston (Mass.) Police Department in response to a sudden increase in violent index crimes. The program is rated Promising. Treatment street units experienced statistically significant reductions in total violent index crime, robbery, and aggravated assault, compared with control street units. However, there was no statistically significant effect on incidents of homicide or rape/sexual assault. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Gang Reduction Program (Los Angeles, California) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Assault, Gun violence, Youth/peer courts, Violent offenders, Dropout/expulsion, Truancy, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Databases, Children exposed to violence, Property crime, Immigrants, Minorities, Case Management, Youth development, Treatment, Juvenile detention, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Mentoring, Child health and welfare | This is a comprehensive, multiyear program designed to reduce youth gang crime and violence. The program is rated Promising. The target area demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in calls for shots fired and gang-related incidents compared with the comparison area. However, there were no statistically significant impacts on calls for vandalism, incidents of serious violence, gang-related incidents of serious violence, or student attendance. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Project Safe Neighborhoods (Chicago, Ill.) |
|
Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Prosecution, Determinate sentencing, Mandatory sentencing, Evidence, Process serving, Corrections, Community corrections, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Gangs, Law enforcement operations, Problem-oriented policing | This is a comprehensive antiviolence initiative that uses collaborative strategies to alter perceived costs and benefits of gun violence and is intended to reduce illegal gun offending. The program is rated Promising. Treatment areas experienced a statistically significant reduction in homicide and gun-related homicides, but no reduction in gang-related homicides. In addition, offender notification forums were associated with statistically significant reductions in recidivism rates. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Indianapolis (Ind.) Family Group Conferencing Experiment |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Diversion, Young juvenile offenders, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a restorative justice diversion program for young people who have been convicted of an offense for the first time. It was designed to break their cycle of offending before they commit more offenses. The program is rated Promising. Program youth showed a statistically significant reduction in number of rearrests, compared with control youth, at the 2-year follow up. However, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in time to rearrest. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Police Foot Patrol, Philadelphia 2009 |
|
Assault, Homicide, Robbery, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Arrests | This police foot patrol strategy involved rookie officers patrolling an average beat of 1.3 miles during one shift per day in hot spots in Philadelphia, PA. This program is rated Effective. Compared with the control areas, there were statistically significant reductions in reported violent crime in patrolled areas, although the effect faded once officers were removed from their targeted beats. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Problem-Oriented Policing in Violent Crime Places (Jersey City, NJ) |
|
Assault, Robbery, Databases, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Law enforcement | This is a focused policing strategy, designed to reduce violent crime in high-crime locations in Jersey City, N.J., by modifying specific characteristics and situations that promote violence in targeted areas. The program is rated Promising. Total citizen calls for service and total reported criminal incidents were reduced in treatment locations, compared with control locations. These findings were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Culturally Focused Batterer Counseling (Pittsburgh, PA) |
|
Domestic violence courts, Intimate partner violence, Problem-solving courts, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Assault | This is a cognitive–behavioral counseling program specifically designed for African American men arrested for domestic violence. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups in reassault rates. However, treatment group participants were statistically significantly more likely to be rearrested for domestic violence, compared with control group participants who received conventional counseling. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Hot Spots Policing (Jacksonville, FL) |
|
Arson, Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Homicide, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Policing strategies, Property crime, Law enforcement operations, Arrests | This is a geographically focused policing strategy to reduce violent crime in high-crime areas using problem-oriented policing (POP) and saturation/directed patrols. The program is rated No Effects. While there were no statistically significant reductions in any violent or property crime in POP hot spots, or in any violence or property crime in directed patrol hot spots, there were statistically significant reductions in nondomestic violent crime in POP hot spots compared with control hot spots. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Hot Spots Policing (Lowell, Mass.) |
|
Alcohol-Related Offenses, Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Arrests, Law enforcement | This is a crime-reduction strategy that uses a disorder-policing approach to improve physical and social order in high-crime locations in Lowell, Mass. This program is rated Effective. High-crime locations experienced statistically significant reductions in calls for service and in social and physical disorder, compared with control areas. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Ceasefire (Boston, Mass.) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Weapons violations, Gun violence, Homicide, Violent offenders, Warrants, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Trauma, Young juvenile offenders, Crime prevention, Assault | This is a problem-solving police strategy, which was designed to reduce gang violence, illegal gun possession, and gun violence in communities in Boston, Mass. The program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in youth homicide, citywide gun assaults, calls for service, and recovered new guns following implementation of the intervention. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: CCTV in Five English Cities |
|
Assault, Sensors/Surveillance, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Violent crime, Equipment and technology | This program consists of installing closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, to deter crime in five cities in England. The program is rated Promising. Intervention sites that installed CCTV cameras experienced a statistically significant reduction in assault-related emergency department visits, compared with control sites that did not install CCTV cameras. However, there was no statistically significant difference between intervention and control sites in police-reported violent offenses. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Safer Cities Initiative |
|
Assault, Robbery, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Property crime, Violent crime, Policing strategies | This is a place-based policing intervention that was designed to reduce crime and disorder associated with homeless encampments in the “Skid Row” section of Los Angeles, Calif. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group areas had statistically significant reductions in nuisance crime, violent crime, and property crime, compared with comparison group areas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Prolonged Exposure Therapy |
|
Assault, Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Grief, Trauma, Treatment, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime | This is a cognitive–behavioral treatment program for assault survivors who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The program is rated Effective. Women in the treatment group experienced statistically significant reductions in the severity of PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms and a statistically significant improvement in social functioning, compared with women in the control group, at follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Department Domestic Violence Unit |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Evidence, Witnesses, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Problem-oriented policing, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This program consists of a specialized police unit, which was designed to prevent recidivism among people convicted of domestic violence offenses and to assist victims of domestic violence through the process of prosecution and recovery. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with the control group, who were assigned to standard patrol. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Safe Streets (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Drug manufacturing, Drug possession, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing | This is a problem-oriented policing program targeted at high-crime areas and drug corners in Philadelphia, Pa., to prevent violent and drug-related crime. The program is rated Promising. Localized analysis of the intervention group areas (that implemented the program) found statistically significant reductions in violent and drug crime rates. However, there were no statistically significant effects on citywide homicide, violent crime, or drug crime rates. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Secured by Design, West Yorkshire (England) |
|
Burglary, Assault, Environmental design, Sensors/Surveillance, Crime prevention | This program encourages developers to implement crime prevention features in housing designs. The key principles of the program concern physical security, surveillance, access/egress, territoriality, management, and maintenance. The program is rated Promising. The findings reveal statistically significant lower crime rates in the intervention estates, compared with the estates in the comparison group. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Weed and Seed (Miami, Fla.) |
|
Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Drug trafficking, Schools, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Treatment, Law enforcement operations, Problem-oriented policing, Arrests, Violent crime, Policing strategies, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a community-based approach to reducing and preventing crime while revitalizing the community. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in rates of violent crime between the treatment and comparison areas following the crackdown. However, drug offenses increased significantly in the treatment areas, compared with the comparison areas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Ceasefire: Hollenbeck Initiative |
|
Gang Crime, Weapons violations, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Kidnapping, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Trauma, Crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement | This was a policing initiative that targeted specific gangs in the Hollenbeck area of Los Angeles, California, through aggressive enforcement and problem-oriented policing. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant reduction in overall violent crimes in targeted blocks, compared with matched comparison blocks. However, there was no statistically significant effect on gang crimes or gun crimes. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Empowerment Training for Abused Pregnant Women in China |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Coping, Minorities, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Mental health | This is an empowerment training program for pregnant women in China who have been abused. The program is rated Promising. For the experimental group, there were statistically significant declines in levels of psychological abuse, minor physical violence, physical functioning, physical and emotional role limitation, and postnatal depression. However, there were no statistically significant effects on severe physical violence, sexual abuse, and other health-related, quality-of-life measures. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Los Angeles (Calif.) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Crime prevention, Arrests | This is a nonprofit organization created by neighborhood property owners or merchants to provide services, activities, and programs to promote local improvements and public safety. The program is rated Promising. The treatment areas experienced statistically significant reductions in overall crime, serious crime, less serious crime, and arrests compared with the matched control group areas. Date Posted: |
None |
CrimeSolutions’ ratings are assigned from standardized reviews of rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses. While we encourage you to learn more about this process, you don’t need to in order to benefit from it. Our clear ratings and profiles can help you determine if a program or category of program is worth pursuing.
| Icon | Rating | Program Rating Description | Practice Rating Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Effective | Implementing the program is likely to result in the intended outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
|
|
Promising | Implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s) | On average, there is some evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will achieve the intended outcome. |
|
|
No Effects | Implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s) and may result in a negative outcome(s). | On average, there is strong evidence that implementing a program encompassed by the practice will not achieve the intended outcome or may result in a negative outcome. |
Programs
Showing Results For:
Topic: assault| Title | Evidence Rating | Topics | Summary | RCT | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Profile: Denver (Colorado) Crime Gun Intelligence Center |
|
Violent crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Law enforcement, Arrests, Databases, Evidence, Policing strategies, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Courts, Law enforcement operations, Investigations | The program focuses on reducing violent gun crime by disrupting the cycle of gun violence by relying on forensic science and data analysis to identify, investigate, and prosecute individuals who use guns in criminal activity, and the sources of their guns. The program is rated No Effects. The program did not significantly affect homicides or aggravated assaults with a firearm but was shown to significantly reduce violent crime and robbery with a firearm. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Bringing in the Bystander High School Curriculum |
|
Stalking, Violent crime, Assault, Dating violence, School climate, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | The goal of this bystander-focused, classroom-delivered curriculum is to reduce rates of interpersonal violence among high school students. The program is rated No Effects. The program had no statistically significant impact on various measures of interpersonal violence, victim empathy, and measures of proactive bystander behavior. There was a statistically significant decrease for the treatment group in bystander denial about the role students could play in preventing interpersonal violence. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Rowan (United Kingdom) |
|
Arson, Burglary, Assault, Robbery, Sensors/Surveillance, Patrol, Law enforcement, Sanctions, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Crime prevention, Victims of crime | This program involves 15 minutes of police patrol in high-crime hot spots to reduce crime. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in reports of violent crimes and robbery and other crimes against personal victims in hot spots on treatment days, compared with control days. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Police Body-Worn Video (Australia) |
|
Assault, Sensors/Surveillance, Patrol, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Equipment and technology | This program involves police use of video to improve evidence gathering and police and citizen behavior. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in restraining orders issued or assaults on police between body-worn video treatment days and control days (when no officers wore body-worn video). Treatment days had statistically significantly higher rates of use of force, citizen complaints against police, and criminal charges, compared with control days. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Tulsa (Oklahoma) Community-Based Crime Reduction Initiative |
|
Burglary, Assault, Community policing, Patrol, Environmental design, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Law enforcement | This is a police-driven, collaborative, place-based crime-reduction approach focused on a target neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. The program is rated Promising. The initiative resulted in statistically significant reductions in total crime in both areas of the target neighborhood at the two post-intervention periods and a statistically significant reduction in burglary in one area. There were no statistically significant reductions in disorderly offenses and mixed results on the number of assaults. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Police Substation Within a Business Improvement District in Newark, New Jersey |
|
Burglary, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Environmental design, Crime prevention, Property crime, Larceny/theft, Violent crime | This is a police substation operating within a business improvement district in Newark (N.J.) with the goal of reducing crime in the target area. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in burglary and motor vehicle theft in the treated area compared with a control area over the entire 6-year postintervention period. There were no statistically significant differences in robbery, aggravated assault, or theft from auto. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Philadelphia (Pa.) Predictive Policing Experiment (3PE) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Vehicles, Patrol, Environmental design, Policing strategies, Property crime, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Law enforcement operations | This strategy sought to reduce crime in Philadelphia by testing three different patrol strategies. The program is rated No Effects. Relative to control areas, there was no statistically significant difference in violent or property crimes in areas using one of two of the patrol strategies. Property crimes in an area using one of the strategies saw a statistically significant decrease, while there was a statistically significant increase in violent crime in areas using two of the strategies. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Vacant Lot Greening Program |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Gun violence, Robbery, Environmental design, Crime prevention, Property crime, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Assault, Gun violence, Violent crime, Public order offenses, Crime prevention | This was an intervention to reduce crime and delinquency in urban areas by remediating vacant land. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the control area, treatment areas experienced statistically significant reductions in gun assaults, burglary, nuisances, shootings (overall and per kilometer), and all crimes overall. However, the intervention showed mixed results with regard to drug offense rates and no statistically significant effect on robbery/theft rates. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Milwaukee’s (Wis.) Closed-Circuit Television Camera Program |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Sensors/Surveillance, Surveillance, Environmental design, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), Arrests, Equipment and technology | This is a police-operated public surveillance program that seeks to reduce crime and increase crime clearances (i.e., arrests) by installing new closed-circuit television cameras at high-crime, high-traffic intersections in Milwaukee (Wis.). The program is rated Promising. Intersections in intervention areas where new cameras were installed had a statistically significant higher rate of crime clearances for all crime types, compared with intersections in comparison areas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) (Massachusetts) |
|
Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Violent offenders, Jobs and workforce development, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18), Young adults (18-24), Gangs | This secondary violence prevention program targets young men most likely to commit or be victim of gang or gun crime to reduce their incarceration and victimization from violent crime. The program is rated Promising. SSYI youths were statistically significantly less likely to be incarcerated compared with comparison group youths. SSYI–funded cities had statistically significant reductions in all measured city-level crime victimization rates, compared with comparison cities. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Second Responder Program for Men (Ontario, Canada) |
|
Crime prevention, Intimate partner violence, Assault | This is a program for moderate- and high-risk males accused of assaulting their intimate partners. The program is rated Promising. Compared with the comparison group, program participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of being charged with any new domestic, property, or administrative offense and of having contact with the police. There was no statistically significant difference between groups on likelihood of being charged with a new violent offense. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Street Lighting in New York City Public Housing |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Regulatory offenses, Weapons violations, Assault, Carjacking, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Environmental design, Crime prevention, Violent crime | This is a temporary outdoor street-lighting program designed to reduce nighttime crime in public housing developments experiencing elevated crime rates. The program is rated Promising. Installing additional light towers in treated developments resulted in statistically significant reductions in complaints of index crimes, felony crimes, assaults, homicides, and weapons crimes at night, compared with control developments. There were no statistically significant differences in misdemeanor crimes. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Kansas City (MO) No Violence Alliance |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Arrests | This is a focused deterrence violence-reduction strategy. The goal was to lower the city’s exposure to violent crime, including reducing the numbers of homicides and aggravated assaults committed by chronic violent individuals operating within organized groups and other social networks. The program is rated No Effects. Two years postimplementation, there was no statistically significant impact on homicides, group-member-involved homicides, and aggravated assaults. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Crime Hot Spots Intervention (Sacramento, Calif.) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Robbery, Patrol, Situational crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Problem-oriented policing | This program involved officers patrolling crime hot spots in roughly 15-minute intervals to reduce crime. The program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions in aggregated Part 1 crimes and Part 1 property crimes in the treatment hot spots, compared with control areas, during the 90-day intervention period, when compared with the same period 1 year prior. However, there was no statistically significant effect on calls for service, soft crime, and Part 1 violent crimes Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: A Safety Awareness Program (ASAP) for Women with Disabilities |
|
Assault | This program is designed to increase safety awareness, knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, and behaviors as well as increase social support among women with disabilities. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to produce a statistically significant increase among participants’ scores on measures of safety planning, safety knowledge, and safety-promoting behaviors, compared with non-participants. The groups did not differ on measures of safety awareness following the intervention. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Texas Intensive Supervision Parole (Houston and Dallas) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Homicide, Robbery, Drug testing, Parole, Drug possession, Community corrections, Prisons, Reentry | This program was designed to increase monitoring and control of persons on parole who demonstrated poor parole performance and were at high risk of returning to prison for a parole violation. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in reconviction, rearrest, and employment rates between groups in both Houston and Dallas. In Houston, program participants were significantly more likely to have technical violations than those in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Group Violence Reduction Strategy (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Violent offenders, Surveillance, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Homicide, Crime prevention, Gun violence, Assault, Violent crime | This focused deterrence strategy in New Orleans, Louisiana, aims to reduce gang violence and homicide. The program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions found in overall homicide, firearm-related homicide, gang member-involved homicide, and firearm assault from the pretest to the posttest period. Further, New Orleans showed significantly decreased homicide rates after the program was implemented, compared with 14 cities with similar violent crime rates. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Directed Patrol and Self-Initiated Enforcement in Hot Spots (St. Louis, Missouri) |
|
Assault, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations | This experiment assessed the impact of two hot spots policing tactics on firearm violence. The program is rated Promising. Compared with comparison hot spots, hot spots that received self-initiated enforcement experienced a statistically significant reduction in firearm assault rates, but there were no statistically significant differences for hot spots that received directed patrol. There was no statistically significant effect on firearm robbery rates between treatment and comparison hot spots Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: The Women's Program |
|
Girls, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Stalking, Assault, Underage drinking, Campus Crime, Coping, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Schools, Crisis response | This is a sexual assault risk-reduction program that is designed to teach college women bystanders about sexual assault, characteristics of men who perpetrate the crime, and how to intervene. The program is rated Promising. Experimental group participants demonstrated statistically significant increases in their ability and willingness to intervene, compared with control group participants. However, there was no statistically significant impact on rape myth acceptance. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Cardiff (Wales) Violence Prevention Programme (CVPP) |
|
Assault, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Arrests, Violent crime | This program consisted of a multi-agency partnership to prevent violence and reduce violence-related emergency room admissions in Cardiff, Wales. The program is rated Promising. The program showed a statistically significant reduction in the rates of total assaults, wounding assaults, and hospital admissions related to violence, compared with the comparison sites. However, there were no statistically significant differences between Cardiff and the comparison sites in the rate of common assaults. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Cognitive-Processing Therapy for Female Victims of Sexual Assault |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Stalking, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Grief, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This is a cognitive therapeutic program that is intended to assist female victims of sexual assault with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The overall goal is to restructure unbalanced thoughts directly related to the trauma. The program is rated Effective. Women in the treatment group demonstrated reduced symptoms of both PTSD and depression, compared with women in the control group. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: New York Integrated Domestic Violence Courts |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Domestic violence courts, Family courts, Diversion, Courts, Intimate partner violence, Crime prevention | This program is a problem-solving court that is part of a unified “one family-one judge” model, which means all criminal, family, and matrimonial cases involving the same family are handled by one judge. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in re-arrests and conviction rates when comparing the IDV court cases with traditional family court cases. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: New York's Criminal Domestic Violence Courts |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Domestic violence courts, Family courts, Problem-solving courts, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Diversion, Violent crime | The program is a problem-solving court that operate a specialized caseload for domestic violence-related cases only, and for which eligibility is determined on a case-by-case basis. Criminal domestic violence courts tend to be more common throughout the U.S. The program is rated No Effects. The criminal domestic violence courts in New York statistically significantly reduced case-processing time, but there was no statistically significant impact on recidivism. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Program |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Campus Crime, Coping, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a rape prevention program for college students, designed to teach about the prevalence of sexual assault, distinguish between rape myths and facts, identify risky situations, and teach techniques to use in a risky situation. The program was rated No Effects. The program had a statistically significant effect on self-efficacy and self-protective dating behaviors, but did not impact sexual victimization, sexual aggression, attitudes toward women, rape empathy, or sexual communication. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Movimiento Ascendencia (Pueblo, Colo.) |
|
Girls, Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Weapons violations, Assault, Afterschool, Drug abuse prevention and education, Drugs, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | A culturally focused, gender-specific program that provides young females, primarily Mexican American, alternatives to substance abuse and gang involvement. The program is rated Promising. The program significantly reduced self-reports of damaging property; stealing more than $50; and buying, selling, or holding stolen goods. However, it had no impact on self-esteem, grades in school, concealing of weapons, and stealing less than $50. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Rochester (N.Y.) Domestic Violence Court Judicial Monitoring |
|
Assault, Domestic violence courts, Problem-solving courts, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This program was designed to provide judicial monitoring of people convicted of domestic violence through frequent court appearances before a judge. The goal was to ensure compliance with program requirements and deter future violence and re-abuse of victims. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention group and control group in rearrests, attendance at court-ordered programs, or completion of programs. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Minneapolis Center for Victim-Offender Mediation |
|
Assault, Mediators, Restitution, Violent offenders, Property crime, Victims of crime, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a restorative justice program that provides juveniles who have been convicted of an offense and their victims the opportunity to meet face to face in the presence of a mediator to discuss the offense. The program is rated Promising. Individuals in the program were statistically significantly more likely to complete their restitution obligation. There was a statistically significant impact on victim satisfaction with the justice system, but there was no statistically significant impact on Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Supporting Adolescents with Guidance and Employment (SAGE) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Violent offenders, Youth development, Jobs and workforce development, Positive youth development, Recreation, Young juvenile offenders, Employment initiatives | This is a violence prevention program designed to reduce problem behaviors in African American male adolescents. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between participants in the intervention and control groups in overall problem behaviors, violent behaviors, or risky behaviors. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Peers Making Peace |
|
Assault, Dropout/expulsion, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a peer-mediation program designed to handle conflicts both in and out of school and to help maintain drug-free schools. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group had statistically significantly fewer assaults, expulsions, discipline referrals, absences, a greater improvement in self-efficacy, and statistically significantly improved in academic performance, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Hardcore (Los Angeles, CA) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Assault, Homicide, Prosecution, Witnesses, Case Management, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Juvenile detention | This program consists of a judicial intervention, which seeks to improve the prosecution of gang-related crimes. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group cases were associated with a statistically significant greater number of convictions and incarcerations of gang members, and a lower number of case dismissals and rejections, compared with control group cases. However, there was no statistically significant effect on the rate of pleas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD) |
|
Alcohol-Related Offenses, Alcohol, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Traffic laws, Traffic law enforcement, Law enforcement, Assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a community-based program to reduce underage drinking and alcohol-related offenses. The program is rated Promising. Intervention sites reported statistically significant reductions in DUI and nighttime crashes, average drinking quantity and variance, police-reported assaults, and EMS calls involving assault and motor vehicle crashes, compared with control sites. There was no difference in ED assaults, police reports of public drunkenness, or EMS calls involving alcohol or other drugs. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Impact (Newark, New Jersey) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Policing strategies | This was a saturation foot-patrol initiative implemented in Newark, N.J., in 2008 that aimed to reduce violent crime. The program is rated Promising. The target area that implemented the initiative experienced statistically significant reductions in overall violence and incidences of aggravated assault and shootings, compared with the control area. However, there was no statistically significant effect on incidences of murder or robbery. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Safe Street Teams (Boston, MA) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Robbery, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Law enforcement | This is a place-based, problem-oriented policing strategy implemented by the Boston (Mass.) Police Department in response to a sudden increase in violent index crimes. The program is rated Promising. Treatment street units experienced statistically significant reductions in total violent index crime, robbery, and aggravated assault, compared with control street units. However, there was no statistically significant effect on incidents of homicide or rape/sexual assault. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Gang Reduction Program (Los Angeles, California) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Assault, Gun violence, Youth/peer courts, Violent offenders, Dropout/expulsion, Truancy, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Databases, Children exposed to violence, Property crime, Immigrants, Minorities, Case Management, Youth development, Treatment, Juvenile detention, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Mentoring, Child health and welfare | This is a comprehensive, multiyear program designed to reduce youth gang crime and violence. The program is rated Promising. The target area demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in calls for shots fired and gang-related incidents compared with the comparison area. However, there were no statistically significant impacts on calls for vandalism, incidents of serious violence, gang-related incidents of serious violence, or student attendance. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Project Safe Neighborhoods (Chicago, Ill.) |
|
Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Prosecution, Determinate sentencing, Mandatory sentencing, Evidence, Process serving, Corrections, Community corrections, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Gangs, Law enforcement operations, Problem-oriented policing | This is a comprehensive antiviolence initiative that uses collaborative strategies to alter perceived costs and benefits of gun violence and is intended to reduce illegal gun offending. The program is rated Promising. Treatment areas experienced a statistically significant reduction in homicide and gun-related homicides, but no reduction in gang-related homicides. In addition, offender notification forums were associated with statistically significant reductions in recidivism rates. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Indianapolis (Ind.) Family Group Conferencing Experiment |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Diversion, Young juvenile offenders, Recidivism, Crime prevention | This is a restorative justice diversion program for young people who have been convicted of an offense for the first time. It was designed to break their cycle of offending before they commit more offenses. The program is rated Promising. Program youth showed a statistically significant reduction in number of rearrests, compared with control youth, at the 2-year follow up. However, there were no statistically significant differences between the groups in time to rearrest. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Police Foot Patrol, Philadelphia 2009 |
|
Assault, Homicide, Robbery, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Arrests | This police foot patrol strategy involved rookie officers patrolling an average beat of 1.3 miles during one shift per day in hot spots in Philadelphia, PA. This program is rated Effective. Compared with the control areas, there were statistically significant reductions in reported violent crime in patrolled areas, although the effect faded once officers were removed from their targeted beats. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Problem-Oriented Policing in Violent Crime Places (Jersey City, NJ) |
|
Assault, Robbery, Databases, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Law enforcement | This is a focused policing strategy, designed to reduce violent crime in high-crime locations in Jersey City, N.J., by modifying specific characteristics and situations that promote violence in targeted areas. The program is rated Promising. Total citizen calls for service and total reported criminal incidents were reduced in treatment locations, compared with control locations. These findings were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Culturally Focused Batterer Counseling (Pittsburgh, PA) |
|
Domestic violence courts, Intimate partner violence, Problem-solving courts, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Assault | This is a cognitive–behavioral counseling program specifically designed for African American men arrested for domestic violence. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups in reassault rates. However, treatment group participants were statistically significantly more likely to be rearrested for domestic violence, compared with control group participants who received conventional counseling. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Hot Spots Policing (Jacksonville, FL) |
|
Arson, Burglary, Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Assault, Homicide, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Policing strategies, Property crime, Law enforcement operations, Arrests | This is a geographically focused policing strategy to reduce violent crime in high-crime areas using problem-oriented policing (POP) and saturation/directed patrols. The program is rated No Effects. While there were no statistically significant reductions in any violent or property crime in POP hot spots, or in any violence or property crime in directed patrol hot spots, there were statistically significant reductions in nondomestic violent crime in POP hot spots compared with control hot spots. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Hot Spots Policing (Lowell, Mass.) |
|
Alcohol-Related Offenses, Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Databases, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Arrests, Law enforcement | This is a crime-reduction strategy that uses a disorder-policing approach to improve physical and social order in high-crime locations in Lowell, Mass. This program is rated Effective. High-crime locations experienced statistically significant reductions in calls for service and in social and physical disorder, compared with control areas. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Ceasefire (Boston, Mass.) |
|
Gang Crime, Youth gangs, Weapons violations, Gun violence, Homicide, Violent offenders, Warrants, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Trauma, Young juvenile offenders, Crime prevention, Assault | This is a problem-solving police strategy, which was designed to reduce gang violence, illegal gun possession, and gun violence in communities in Boston, Mass. The program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in youth homicide, citywide gun assaults, calls for service, and recovered new guns following implementation of the intervention. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: CCTV in Five English Cities |
|
Assault, Sensors/Surveillance, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Violent crime, Equipment and technology | This program consists of installing closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, to deter crime in five cities in England. The program is rated Promising. Intervention sites that installed CCTV cameras experienced a statistically significant reduction in assault-related emergency department visits, compared with control sites that did not install CCTV cameras. However, there was no statistically significant difference between intervention and control sites in police-reported violent offenses. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Safer Cities Initiative |
|
Assault, Robbery, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Property crime, Violent crime, Policing strategies | This is a place-based policing intervention that was designed to reduce crime and disorder associated with homeless encampments in the “Skid Row” section of Los Angeles, Calif. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group areas had statistically significant reductions in nuisance crime, violent crime, and property crime, compared with comparison group areas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Prolonged Exposure Therapy |
|
Assault, Juvenile health, Mental health, Children exposed to violence, Coping, Grief, Trauma, Treatment, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime | This is a cognitive–behavioral treatment program for assault survivors who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The program is rated Effective. Women in the treatment group experienced statistically significant reductions in the severity of PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms and a statistically significant improvement in social functioning, compared with women in the control group, at follow up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Department Domestic Violence Unit |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Evidence, Witnesses, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Prosecution, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement, Problem-oriented policing, Victims of crime, Crisis response | This program consists of a specialized police unit, which was designed to prevent recidivism among people convicted of domestic violence offenses and to assist victims of domestic violence through the process of prosecution and recovery. The program is rated Promising. The treatment group assigned to the Domestic Violence Unit had a statistically significant lower likelihood of recidivating, compared with the control group, who were assigned to standard patrol. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Safe Streets (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Drug manufacturing, Drug possession, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing | This is a problem-oriented policing program targeted at high-crime areas and drug corners in Philadelphia, Pa., to prevent violent and drug-related crime. The program is rated Promising. Localized analysis of the intervention group areas (that implemented the program) found statistically significant reductions in violent and drug crime rates. However, there were no statistically significant effects on citywide homicide, violent crime, or drug crime rates. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Secured by Design, West Yorkshire (England) |
|
Burglary, Assault, Environmental design, Sensors/Surveillance, Crime prevention | This program encourages developers to implement crime prevention features in housing designs. The key principles of the program concern physical security, surveillance, access/egress, territoriality, management, and maintenance. The program is rated Promising. The findings reveal statistically significant lower crime rates in the intervention estates, compared with the estates in the comparison group. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Weed and Seed (Miami, Fla.) |
|
Gang Crime, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Drug trafficking, Schools, Community policing, Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Treatment, Law enforcement operations, Problem-oriented policing, Arrests, Violent crime, Policing strategies, Drugs, Drug treatment | This is a community-based approach to reducing and preventing crime while revitalizing the community. This program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in rates of violent crime between the treatment and comparison areas following the crackdown. However, drug offenses increased significantly in the treatment areas, compared with the comparison areas. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Operation Ceasefire: Hollenbeck Initiative |
|
Gang Crime, Weapons violations, Assault, Gun violence, Homicide, Kidnapping, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Problem-oriented policing, Trauma, Crime prevention, Law enforcement operations, Law enforcement | This was a policing initiative that targeted specific gangs in the Hollenbeck area of Los Angeles, California, through aggressive enforcement and problem-oriented policing. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant reduction in overall violent crimes in targeted blocks, compared with matched comparison blocks. However, there was no statistically significant effect on gang crimes or gun crimes. Date Posted: |
None | ||
| Program Profile: Empowerment Training for Abused Pregnant Women in China |
|
Assault, Dating violence, Coping, Minorities, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Mental health | This is an empowerment training program for pregnant women in China who have been abused. The program is rated Promising. For the experimental group, there were statistically significant declines in levels of psychological abuse, minor physical violence, physical functioning, physical and emotional role limitation, and postnatal depression. However, there were no statistically significant effects on severe physical violence, sexual abuse, and other health-related, quality-of-life measures. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
| Program Profile: Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Los Angeles (Calif.) |
|
Burglary, Larceny/theft, Assault, Robbery, Community policing, Patrol, Crime prevention, Arrests | This is a nonprofit organization created by neighborhood property owners or merchants to provide services, activities, and programs to promote local improvements and public safety. The program is rated Promising. The treatment areas experienced statistically significant reductions in overall crime, serious crime, less serious crime, and arrests compared with the matched control group areas. Date Posted: |
None |