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Program Profile: Bringing in the Bystander High School Curriculum |
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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) |
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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: Restorative Justice Conferencing in Rhode Island Schools |
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Youth development, School climate, Schools, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This is a school program to address student misbehavior and repair harm. The program is rated No Effects. Middle schoolers in the treatment group had a statistically significant higher likelihood of disciplinary referrals and out-of-school suspensions, compared with comparison group students, which was the opposite of what was intended. There were no statistically significant differences in disciplinary referrals or suspensions between high schoolers in the treatment and the comparison groups. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: School-Based Law Enforcement Framework (Texas) |
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School safety, Training, School climate, Schools, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Victims of crime, School climate | This is a framework of recommended practices for integrating police into the educational environment to enhance a safe school climate. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in treatment and control school students’ delinquency, victimization, exclusionary discipline, relationships with adults, perceptions of police, nor school bonding, connectedness, and safety. Treatment school students had statistically significant increases in rule clarity. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Police Body-Worn Video (Australia) |
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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: Detroit (Mich.) Ceasefire |
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Gang Crime, Gun violence, Databases, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Victimization, Gangs, Arrests, Victims of crime | This is a focused deterrence police strategy that was designed to reduce gang- and group-related violence in Detroit, Mich. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences found for weapons arrests or shooting victimizations for participants in two age groups (15–24 and 25–34). The program did show a statistically significant reduction in all arrests and violent arrests for individuals who attended the Detroit Ceasefire call-in meetings. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: IMpower Program for American Indian Girls |
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Tribal youth, Dating violence, School climate, Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victimization, Tribal, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | This was a sexual assault prevention program adapted for American Indian girls that sought to reduce sexual assault victimization and to improve sexual assault resistance skills and self-defense knowledge. The program is rated Promising. Girls who received the intervention reported statistically significantly lower rates of sexual assault and sexual harassment, compared with girls in the comparison group. However, there was no impact on reported rates of physical dating violence. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Routine Inquiry About Violence Victimization and Follow-Up Support (Sweden) |
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Girls, Treatment, Victims of crime, Violent crime, Intimate partner violence, Rape and sexual assault | This is a program for young women in nonemergency health centers in Sweden. It involves routine inquiry about their experiences with violence victimization and offers empowerment strategies for victimized women. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups in self-reported measures of physical violence, sexual violence (touch or penetration), and emotional violence at the 12-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) (Massachusetts) |
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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: |
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Program Profile: Children’s Advocacy Center Model |
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Mental health, Treatment, Case Management, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is a multidisciplinary, victim-focused approach designed to improve forensic interviewing and the continuity of care for youth who are victims of sexual abuse and assault. The program is rated Effective. The program showed a statistically significant increase in the receipt of physical health examinations and counseling referrals for treatment group youth, compared with youth in the community comparison group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Prev@cib Program (Spain) |
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Bullying, School safety, Computers, Campus Crime, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is an anti-bullying program for adolescents in Spain, which is designed to decrease bullying and cyberbullying perpetration and victimization both in the classroom and virtual environments. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant decrease in bullying and victimization and cyberbullying and cybervictimization for the treatment group, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Ceasefire (Oakland, Calif.) |
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Gang Crime, Gun violence, Homicide, Violent offenders, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a focused-deterrence group violence reduction strategy (GVRS) designed to reduce or control gun violence in Oakland, Calif. The program is rated Effective. The intervention was shown to reduce total shootings, gang-involved shootings, suspected gang-involved shootings, and gang shooting victimizations in treatment block groups relative to matched comparison block groups. These differences were all statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Olweus Bullying Prevention Program |
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Bullying, School safety, School climate, School violence, Juvenile (under 18), Schools, Child health and welfare, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a schoolwide, multicomponent intervention to reduce and prevent aggression and bullying among students. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant intervention effect on teachers’ ratings of students’ physical, verbal, and relational aggression and victimization. However, there was no statistically significant intervention effect on students’ self-reports of physical and relational aggression and victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Emotional and Behavioral Health Crisis Response and Prevention (EBH-CRP) |
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Bullying, Mental health, School safety, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Crisis response, Victims of crime | The program aims to increase school/community competence in responding to and preventing student emotional and behavioral health crises. This program is rated Promising. Compared with control schools, intervention schools had statistically significantly lower rates of suspensions and office referrals and had conducted more threat assessments and crisis interventions. However, there were no significant effects on bullying, juvenile justice referrals, and emotional or behavioral health incidents. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Text Message Reminders of Court Dates for Victims and Witnesses (Staffordshire, England) |
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Witnesses, Victim notification, Victims of crime | This program was designed to reduce non-appearance rates by notifying victims or witnesses by text message 2 or 3 days before they were scheduled to appear in court. The message acts as a “nudge” to remind and encourage witnesses or victims to attend court. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in non-appearance rates for participants who received a text message reminder, compared with participants who did not. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Operation Swordfish (Birmingham, UK) |
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Burglary, Property crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime | This intervention was designed to prevent repeat and near-repeat burglaries. The program used a target-hardening, crime-prevention technique to reduce repeat victimization of the same households and neighbors within the same area. The program is rated No Effects. The program found no statistically significant difference in both burglaries and time-to-repeat victimization between households in the treatment group, compared with households in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops (London) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Victims of crime | This crime prevention strategy applied hot spots policing techniques to bus stops in London, England. The program is rated No Effects. Generally, there was no statistically significant difference in bus driver reports of crime for treatment bus stops relative to control bus stops. The program also had a reverse effect on victim reports of crime, which increased in treatment bus stops, compared with control bus stops. This finding was statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Restorative Justice Conferences (London, England) |
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Robbery, Burglary, Victims of crime, Property crime, Crime prevention | This is a restorative justice program that uses face-to-face conferences to reduce posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among burglary/robbery victims and reconviction rates among those who committed the offense. The program is rated Promising. Results showed a statistically significant reduction in victims’ clinical levels of PTSS, but no statistically significant effect on reconviction rates among those who committed the offense. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Improving Forensic Responses to Residential Burglaries (Queensland) |
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Burglary, Evidence, Fingerprints, Property crime, Investigations, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Victims of crime | This program aims to improve police officers’ forensic evidence-collection techniques at burglary crime scenes to increase solved burglaries. The program also intends to improve police–victim and police–witness interactions at burglary crime scenes. The program is rated Promising. Results showed a statistically significant increase in solved burglary cases. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Telephone Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Recruited from a Midwestern Pediatric Emergency Department |
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Victimization, Victims of crime, Violent crime | This program provided resources via telephone to women victimized by intimate partner violence (IPV). It provided referrals to community programs, helped participants overcome barriers to obtaining services, and provided social support. The program is rated No Effects. Results showed no statistically significant differences between the treatment and comparison groups on IPV victimization, feeling vulnerable to someone, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Juvenile Restorative Justice Program (Midwest County) |
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Juvenile courts, Diversion, Victims of crime | This program provides an alternative to juvenile court processing for youths with justice system contact who may or may not have a criminal record. The program is rated Promising. Although there was no statistically significant difference between the treatment and comparison groups on rates of official police contact, the average number of days to re-arrest was statistically significantly lower for the treatment group (441.7 days) than for the comparison group (254.1 days). Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention Middle School Program (2008 Edition) |
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Bullying, School safety, Youth development, Positive youth development, School climate, Schools, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a universal, school-based social-emotional learning program aimed at reducing violence and encouraging academic success among middle school students. The program is rated No Effects. While the program had a statistically significant impact on reducing physical aggression, there was no statistically significant impact on sexual-violence victimization and perpetration, peer victimization, bullying victimization and perpetration, cyberbullying, or homophobic name calling. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: San Juan County (N.M.) DWI First Offenders Program-Victim Impact Panels |
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Victim impact panels, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Traffic laws, Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Law enforcement, Traffic law enforcement, Victims of crime | The program is a component of the San Juan County (N.M.) DWI First Offenders Program, which was designed to reduce driving while intoxicated (DWI) recidivism, alcohol consumption, and drinking and driving behavior by exposing them to testimonials from victims of drunk-driving accidents. The program is rated No Effects. No statistically significant differences were found between VIP and no-VIP program participants on DWI recidivism over 2 years, and on various measures of drinking. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Green Dot Intervention Program |
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Dating violence, Campus Crime, Drug-Related Victimization, School climate, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is designed to increase active-bystander behaviors and reduce dating and sexual violence in college and high school students. The program is rated Promising. Students who participated in the program had a statistically significantly greater number of observed and self-reported active-bystander behaviors than students who did not participate. However, there was no statistically significant impact on sexual violence victimization or sexual harassment. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Lethality Assessment Program (Oklahoma) |
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Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victim services, Victims of crime | This is a crisis-response program in which police connect female victims of intimate partner violence with a social service provider, via telephone, at the scene of a domestic violence dispute. The program is rated Promising. When compared with the control group, program participants reported experiencing less violence at follow up. Participants were also more likely to receive an order of protection, and to contact domestic violence services. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Social Learning/Feminist Intervention |
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Girls, Dating violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Victimization, Victims of crime, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Violent crime, Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault | This is a 12-session program for adolescent females with a history of exposure to violence/abuse and involvement in the child welfare system. The goal of the program was to reduce re-victimization in teen dating situations. The program used a health-promotion approach to help girls develop healthy relationships. The program is rated Promising. The intervention had a statistically significant impact on reducing physical re-victimization, but not sexual re-victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Risk Detection/Executive Function Intervention |
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Girls, Dating violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Victims of crime, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a program for adolescent females with a history of violence/abuse and involvement in the child welfare system. The goal of the program was to reduce re-victimization in teen dating situations. The program used mindfulness-based, cognitive interventions to build skills for responding to risky situations (including reasoning and problem solving). The program is rated Promising. The intervention was shown to statistically significantly reduce sexual and physical re-victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Prime Time |
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Girls, Juvenile health, Mental health, Dropout/expulsion, Truancy, Dating violence, Youth development, Positive youth development, Treatment, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Schools, Victims of crime | The program aims to reduce precursors of teen pregnancy, including sexual risk behaviors, involvement in violence, and disconnection from school. The program is rated No Effects. There was a statistically significant impact on consistency of condom use and relational aggression perpetration, but there was no statistically significant impact on physical violence victimization, relational violence victimization, stress management, interpersonal skills, or fight avoidance skills. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Cognitive-Processing Therapy for Female Victims of Sexual Assault |
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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: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program - Multisite |
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Coping, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Prosecution, Courts, Victims of crime | The program uses specially trained nurses to provide comprehensive psychological, medical, and forensic services to recent sexual assault victims in either hospital- or community-based clinic settings. The program is rated Promising. Across multiple sites, the results showed that sexual assault cases that were prosecuted following implementation of SANE had a statistically significant greater likelihood of resulting in a guilty plea or conviction. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Stop School Bullying (Greece) |
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Bullying, Juvenile health, Mental health, School safety, Youth development, Positive youth development, Schools, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a preventative, school-based program for students in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades (ages 9–12) that sought to reduce rates of bullying and victimization within elementary schools. The program is rated Effective. Evaluation results suggest that the program statistically significantly reduced bullying and victimization rates at schools that implemented the program compared with a control group of schools that did not. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Ending Violence |
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Dating violence, School safety, Coping, School climate, Victimization, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a school-based education program designed to teach students the warning signs of dating violence. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant impacts on perceptions of helpfulness in others, likelihood of seeking help, perpetration, victimization, and abusive or fearful dating experiences. However, there was a statistically significant increase in knowledge of dating violence in treatment group students. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: WITS Primary Program |
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Bullying, School safety, Positive youth development, School climate, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a community-based, schoolwide intervention aimed at children in grades 1 through 3 that targets socially competent behaviors and risks for peer victimization. The program was rated Promising. The program was shown to have statistically significant, positive effects on physical and relational victimization and social competence, but not on social responsibility or physical aggression. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Bully-Proofing Your School |
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Bullying, School safety, Positive youth development, Schools, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a school-based intervention program focused on reducing instances of bullying and victimization, while increasing the safety of students in grades 3–5. The program is rated Promising. In all outcomes, the treatment schools showed statistically significant reductions in bullying, victimization, and witnessed aggression, as well as statistically significant increases in perceptions of safety at school. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Program |
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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: It's Your Game... Keep It Real |
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School safety, Dating violence, Victimization, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victims of crime | A health education program for 7th and 8th graders designed to delay sexual behavior and promote healthy dating relationships. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to statistically significantly reduce emotional and physical dating violence victimization. However, the program did not have a statistically significant effect on physical perpetration of dating violence. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Phoenix (Arizona) Homicide Clearance Project |
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Homicide, Databases, Crime scene investigation, Evidence, Witnesses, Law enforcement, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Investigations, Law enforcement operations, Victims of crime, Forensic sciences | This program aims to improve homicide clearance rates by increasing investigative time through the transfer of four crime scene specialists to the homicide unit. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between treatment and comparison squads in case and victim clearance by arrest. There were also no statistically significant difference between squads in case and victim clearance by quick action and whodunit arrests, or quality of scene reports. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Minneapolis Center for Victim-Offender Mediation |
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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: |
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Program Profile: Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments |
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Larceny/theft, Alcohol, Diversion, Violent offenders, Victims of crime, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Property crime, Intimate partner violence, Procedural justice | This is a restorative justice program that uses conferencing to repair the harm. The program is rated Promising. Participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of committing violent offenses, and a greater likelihood of reporting a belief in the law, negative attitude toward reoffending, and greater effort to not drive drunk, compared with the control group. There were mixed findings in the rate of drunk driving, and no difference in property crimes, shoplifting, or recidivism. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Success in Stages® Program |
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Bullying, School safety, Computers, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Victims of crime | This was an antibullying program for all students involved: victims, passive bystanders, and bullies. The program is rated Promising. Elementary, middle, and high school treatment groups experienced statistically significant greater proportions of students reporting no participation in bullying-related roles at the posttests. The elementary student treatment group saw statistically significant reductions in bullying and victimization but no statistically significant change in bystander behavior. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Caring School Community |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Larceny/theft, Property crime, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency, Victimization, Victims of crime, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based program designed to improve students’ school attitudes and reduce delinquency. The program is rated Promising. The program showed a statistically significant positive effect on participants’ attainment of higher rates of supportive behavior and spontaneous prosocial behavior, compared with students who did not participate. There were no statistically significant effects on negative behavior, harmoniousness, substance/alcohol use, property damage, theft, or victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Steps to Respect® |
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Bullying, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Child health and welfare, Victimization, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a schoolwide bullying prevention program that seeks to reduce bullying perpetration and victimization by increasing staff awareness and students’ social–emotional skills. The program is rated No Effects. Despite some statistically significant findings, there were no statistically significant differences between students in intervention and control schools in self-reported bullying victimization, observed nonphysical bullying, self-reported bullying perpetration, and gossip victimization. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Indianapolis (Ind.) Family Group Conferencing Experiment |
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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: Shifting Boundaries (Classroom Curriculum and Schoolwide Intervention) |
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Dating violence, School safety, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Schools, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | This dual intervention aims to reduce peer violence and sexual harassment in middle schoolers by emphasizing consequences and increasing surveillance of unsafe areas. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group had statistically significant reductions in sexual victimization and in violence victimization and perpetration compared with those in the control group. There were no statistically significant effects on sexual harassment perpetration, or knowledge, attitudes, or intentions. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program (Albuquerque, N.M.) |
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Evidence, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Forensic sciences | This program provides specialized and coordinated services to victims of sexual assault during their first contact with the health care system. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group patients had a statistically significant greater number of referrals to victim services and greater likelihood of consenting to evidence collection, pregnancy tests, and STD treatment, compared with control group patients treated in the standard emergency room. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Second Responders Program (Redlands, CA) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Crisis response | The program model enlists second responders to make home visits to try to help victims find long-term solutions to help repeat incident victims of family violence including intimate partner abuse, abuse within families or households, and elder abuse. The program is rated No Effects. Overall, the evidence found no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups on prevalence of and frequency of new domestic incidents and time to failure. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Prolonged Exposure Therapy |
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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 |
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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: Street Lighting in Stoke-on-Trent (England) |
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Burglary, Property crime, Situational crime prevention, Victims of crime | This program upgrades street lighting on residential roads and footpaths to decrease crime and fear of crime. This program is rated Effective. In the experimental area, there were statistically significant reductions in the incidence and prevalence rates of crime and in the percentage of respondents who knew a victim, compared with the control area. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Street Lighting in Dudley (England) |
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Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Robbery, Burglary, Property crime, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Victims of crime | This is a program designed to reduce crime by improving street lighting in residential areas. This program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in prevalence, incidence, and fear of crime in the experimental area compared with the control area. In addition, a statistically significant higher percentage of residents in the control area reported knowing someone who had been the victim of a crime compared with residents in the experimental area. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Post-Rape Video Intervention |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Violent crime, Rape and sexual assault, Victims of crime, Drugs | This intervention is designed to reduce distress associated with forensic rape examinations and reduce the victims’ risk of developing psychopathology and substance use after an assault. The program is rated No Effects. At the 6-month follow up, there were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and nontreatment groups in alcohol, marijuana, or hard drug use, or in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: KiVa Antibullying Program |
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Bullying, School safety, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Victimization, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime, Cyberbullying, Child health and welfare | This school-based program delivered to elementary school students to reduce bullying and victimization was designed for national use in the Finnish comprehensive schools. This program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions for self-reported bullying and victimization and peer-reported victimization for KiVa schools compared with control schools; however, there were no significant differences between treatment and comparison schools on peer-reported bullying. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Fourth R Curriculum |
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Dating violence, School safety, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Drugs | This interactive classroom curriculum is designed to reduce youth dating violence by addressing bullying, unsafe sexual behavior, and substance use. The program is rated No Effects. The program had small, statistically significant effects on decreasing dating violence and sexual harassment/assault victimization. However, there were no significant effects on sexual harassment/assault perpetration, peer violence perpetration or victimization, sexual activity, substance use, or prosocial attitudes. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Safe Dates |
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Dating violence, Juvenile health, Sex offenders, School safety, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Intimate partner violence, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a prevention program for middle and high school students, which is designed to stop or prevent dating violence perpetration and victimization. This program is rated Effective. The intervention group showed statistically significant reductions in psychological, physical, and sexual abuse perpetration, and physical abuse victimization, compared with the control group at the 4-year follow up; however, there were no significant differences between groups on sexual abuse victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Clarke County (Ga.) Victim Impact Panels |
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Victim impact panels, Victims of crime | This restorative justice program requires persons convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol to attend panels at which they listen to victims give short presentations describing the pain and loss they have suffered due to a drunk driver. The program is rated Promising. After 5 years, there was a statistically significant decrease in rearrests for participants, compared with those who did not attend. Date Posted: |
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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. |
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Program Profile: Bringing in the Bystander High School Curriculum |
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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) |
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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: Restorative Justice Conferencing in Rhode Island Schools |
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Youth development, School climate, Schools, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare | This is a school program to address student misbehavior and repair harm. The program is rated No Effects. Middle schoolers in the treatment group had a statistically significant higher likelihood of disciplinary referrals and out-of-school suspensions, compared with comparison group students, which was the opposite of what was intended. There were no statistically significant differences in disciplinary referrals or suspensions between high schoolers in the treatment and the comparison groups. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: School-Based Law Enforcement Framework (Texas) |
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School safety, Training, School climate, Schools, Juvenile delinquency, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Victims of crime, School climate | This is a framework of recommended practices for integrating police into the educational environment to enhance a safe school climate. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in treatment and control school students’ delinquency, victimization, exclusionary discipline, relationships with adults, perceptions of police, nor school bonding, connectedness, and safety. Treatment school students had statistically significant increases in rule clarity. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Police Body-Worn Video (Australia) |
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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: Detroit (Mich.) Ceasefire |
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Gang Crime, Gun violence, Databases, Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Victimization, Gangs, Arrests, Victims of crime | This is a focused deterrence police strategy that was designed to reduce gang- and group-related violence in Detroit, Mich. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences found for weapons arrests or shooting victimizations for participants in two age groups (15–24 and 25–34). The program did show a statistically significant reduction in all arrests and violent arrests for individuals who attended the Detroit Ceasefire call-in meetings. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: IMpower Program for American Indian Girls |
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Tribal youth, Dating violence, School climate, Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victimization, Tribal, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault, Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | This was a sexual assault prevention program adapted for American Indian girls that sought to reduce sexual assault victimization and to improve sexual assault resistance skills and self-defense knowledge. The program is rated Promising. Girls who received the intervention reported statistically significantly lower rates of sexual assault and sexual harassment, compared with girls in the comparison group. However, there was no impact on reported rates of physical dating violence. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Routine Inquiry About Violence Victimization and Follow-Up Support (Sweden) |
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Girls, Treatment, Victims of crime, Violent crime, Intimate partner violence, Rape and sexual assault | This is a program for young women in nonemergency health centers in Sweden. It involves routine inquiry about their experiences with violence victimization and offers empowerment strategies for victimized women. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and control groups in self-reported measures of physical violence, sexual violence (touch or penetration), and emotional violence at the 12-month follow-up. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) (Massachusetts) |
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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: |
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Program Profile: Children’s Advocacy Center Model |
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Mental health, Treatment, Case Management, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is a multidisciplinary, victim-focused approach designed to improve forensic interviewing and the continuity of care for youth who are victims of sexual abuse and assault. The program is rated Effective. The program showed a statistically significant increase in the receipt of physical health examinations and counseling referrals for treatment group youth, compared with youth in the community comparison group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Prev@cib Program (Spain) |
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Bullying, School safety, Computers, Campus Crime, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is an anti-bullying program for adolescents in Spain, which is designed to decrease bullying and cyberbullying perpetration and victimization both in the classroom and virtual environments. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant decrease in bullying and victimization and cyberbullying and cybervictimization for the treatment group, compared with the control group. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Ceasefire (Oakland, Calif.) |
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Gang Crime, Gun violence, Homicide, Violent offenders, Problem-oriented policing, Policing strategies, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a focused-deterrence group violence reduction strategy (GVRS) designed to reduce or control gun violence in Oakland, Calif. The program is rated Effective. The intervention was shown to reduce total shootings, gang-involved shootings, suspected gang-involved shootings, and gang shooting victimizations in treatment block groups relative to matched comparison block groups. These differences were all statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Olweus Bullying Prevention Program |
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Bullying, School safety, School climate, School violence, Juvenile (under 18), Schools, Child health and welfare, Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a schoolwide, multicomponent intervention to reduce and prevent aggression and bullying among students. The program is rated Promising. There was a statistically significant intervention effect on teachers’ ratings of students’ physical, verbal, and relational aggression and victimization. However, there was no statistically significant intervention effect on students’ self-reports of physical and relational aggression and victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Emotional and Behavioral Health Crisis Response and Prevention (EBH-CRP) |
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Bullying, Mental health, School safety, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Crisis response, Victims of crime | The program aims to increase school/community competence in responding to and preventing student emotional and behavioral health crises. This program is rated Promising. Compared with control schools, intervention schools had statistically significantly lower rates of suspensions and office referrals and had conducted more threat assessments and crisis interventions. However, there were no significant effects on bullying, juvenile justice referrals, and emotional or behavioral health incidents. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Text Message Reminders of Court Dates for Victims and Witnesses (Staffordshire, England) |
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Witnesses, Victim notification, Victims of crime | This program was designed to reduce non-appearance rates by notifying victims or witnesses by text message 2 or 3 days before they were scheduled to appear in court. The message acts as a “nudge” to remind and encourage witnesses or victims to attend court. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences in non-appearance rates for participants who received a text message reminder, compared with participants who did not. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Operation Swordfish (Birmingham, UK) |
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Burglary, Property crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime | This intervention was designed to prevent repeat and near-repeat burglaries. The program used a target-hardening, crime-prevention technique to reduce repeat victimization of the same households and neighbors within the same area. The program is rated No Effects. The program found no statistically significant difference in both burglaries and time-to-repeat victimization between households in the treatment group, compared with households in the control group. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops (London) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Situational crime prevention, Victims of crime | This crime prevention strategy applied hot spots policing techniques to bus stops in London, England. The program is rated No Effects. Generally, there was no statistically significant difference in bus driver reports of crime for treatment bus stops relative to control bus stops. The program also had a reverse effect on victim reports of crime, which increased in treatment bus stops, compared with control bus stops. This finding was statistically significant. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Restorative Justice Conferences (London, England) |
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Robbery, Burglary, Victims of crime, Property crime, Crime prevention | This is a restorative justice program that uses face-to-face conferences to reduce posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among burglary/robbery victims and reconviction rates among those who committed the offense. The program is rated Promising. Results showed a statistically significant reduction in victims’ clinical levels of PTSS, but no statistically significant effect on reconviction rates among those who committed the offense. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Improving Forensic Responses to Residential Burglaries (Queensland) |
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Burglary, Evidence, Fingerprints, Property crime, Investigations, Law enforcement, Law enforcement operations, Victims of crime | This program aims to improve police officers’ forensic evidence-collection techniques at burglary crime scenes to increase solved burglaries. The program also intends to improve police–victim and police–witness interactions at burglary crime scenes. The program is rated Promising. Results showed a statistically significant increase in solved burglary cases. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Telephone Support Services for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Recruited from a Midwestern Pediatric Emergency Department |
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Victimization, Victims of crime, Violent crime | This program provided resources via telephone to women victimized by intimate partner violence (IPV). It provided referrals to community programs, helped participants overcome barriers to obtaining services, and provided social support. The program is rated No Effects. Results showed no statistically significant differences between the treatment and comparison groups on IPV victimization, feeling vulnerable to someone, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Juvenile Restorative Justice Program (Midwest County) |
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Juvenile courts, Diversion, Victims of crime | This program provides an alternative to juvenile court processing for youths with justice system contact who may or may not have a criminal record. The program is rated Promising. Although there was no statistically significant difference between the treatment and comparison groups on rates of official police contact, the average number of days to re-arrest was statistically significantly lower for the treatment group (441.7 days) than for the comparison group (254.1 days). Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention Middle School Program (2008 Edition) |
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Bullying, School safety, Youth development, Positive youth development, School climate, Schools, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a universal, school-based social-emotional learning program aimed at reducing violence and encouraging academic success among middle school students. The program is rated No Effects. While the program had a statistically significant impact on reducing physical aggression, there was no statistically significant impact on sexual-violence victimization and perpetration, peer victimization, bullying victimization and perpetration, cyberbullying, or homophobic name calling. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: San Juan County (N.M.) DWI First Offenders Program-Victim Impact Panels |
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Victim impact panels, Alcohol-Related Offenses, Crime prevention, Recidivism, Traffic laws, Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Law enforcement, Traffic law enforcement, Victims of crime | The program is a component of the San Juan County (N.M.) DWI First Offenders Program, which was designed to reduce driving while intoxicated (DWI) recidivism, alcohol consumption, and drinking and driving behavior by exposing them to testimonials from victims of drunk-driving accidents. The program is rated No Effects. No statistically significant differences were found between VIP and no-VIP program participants on DWI recidivism over 2 years, and on various measures of drinking. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Green Dot Intervention Program |
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Dating violence, Campus Crime, Drug-Related Victimization, School climate, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victimization, Victims of crime, Juvenile (under 18) | This program is designed to increase active-bystander behaviors and reduce dating and sexual violence in college and high school students. The program is rated Promising. Students who participated in the program had a statistically significantly greater number of observed and self-reported active-bystander behaviors than students who did not participate. However, there was no statistically significant impact on sexual violence victimization or sexual harassment. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Lethality Assessment Program (Oklahoma) |
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Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victim services, Victims of crime | This is a crisis-response program in which police connect female victims of intimate partner violence with a social service provider, via telephone, at the scene of a domestic violence dispute. The program is rated Promising. When compared with the control group, program participants reported experiencing less violence at follow up. Participants were also more likely to receive an order of protection, and to contact domestic violence services. These differences were statistically significant. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Social Learning/Feminist Intervention |
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Girls, Dating violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Victimization, Victims of crime, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Violent crime, Crime prevention, Rape and sexual assault | This is a 12-session program for adolescent females with a history of exposure to violence/abuse and involvement in the child welfare system. The goal of the program was to reduce re-victimization in teen dating situations. The program used a health-promotion approach to help girls develop healthy relationships. The program is rated Promising. The intervention had a statistically significant impact on reducing physical re-victimization, but not sexual re-victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Risk Detection/Executive Function Intervention |
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Girls, Dating violence, Foster care/child welfare system, Victims of crime, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention | This is a program for adolescent females with a history of violence/abuse and involvement in the child welfare system. The goal of the program was to reduce re-victimization in teen dating situations. The program used mindfulness-based, cognitive interventions to build skills for responding to risky situations (including reasoning and problem solving). The program is rated Promising. The intervention was shown to statistically significantly reduce sexual and physical re-victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Prime Time |
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Girls, Juvenile health, Mental health, Dropout/expulsion, Truancy, Dating violence, Youth development, Positive youth development, Treatment, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Schools, Victims of crime | The program aims to reduce precursors of teen pregnancy, including sexual risk behaviors, involvement in violence, and disconnection from school. The program is rated No Effects. There was a statistically significant impact on consistency of condom use and relational aggression perpetration, but there was no statistically significant impact on physical violence victimization, relational violence victimization, stress management, interpersonal skills, or fight avoidance skills. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Cognitive-Processing Therapy for Female Victims of Sexual Assault |
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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: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program - Multisite |
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Coping, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Prosecution, Courts, Victims of crime | The program uses specially trained nurses to provide comprehensive psychological, medical, and forensic services to recent sexual assault victims in either hospital- or community-based clinic settings. The program is rated Promising. Across multiple sites, the results showed that sexual assault cases that were prosecuted following implementation of SANE had a statistically significant greater likelihood of resulting in a guilty plea or conviction. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Stop School Bullying (Greece) |
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Bullying, Juvenile health, Mental health, School safety, Youth development, Positive youth development, Schools, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a preventative, school-based program for students in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades (ages 9–12) that sought to reduce rates of bullying and victimization within elementary schools. The program is rated Effective. Evaluation results suggest that the program statistically significantly reduced bullying and victimization rates at schools that implemented the program compared with a control group of schools that did not. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Ending Violence |
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Dating violence, School safety, Coping, School climate, Victimization, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a school-based education program designed to teach students the warning signs of dating violence. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant impacts on perceptions of helpfulness in others, likelihood of seeking help, perpetration, victimization, and abusive or fearful dating experiences. However, there was a statistically significant increase in knowledge of dating violence in treatment group students. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: WITS Primary Program |
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Bullying, School safety, Positive youth development, School climate, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victimization, Victims of crime | This is a community-based, schoolwide intervention aimed at children in grades 1 through 3 that targets socially competent behaviors and risks for peer victimization. The program was rated Promising. The program was shown to have statistically significant, positive effects on physical and relational victimization and social competence, but not on social responsibility or physical aggression. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Bully-Proofing Your School |
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Bullying, School safety, Positive youth development, Schools, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a school-based intervention program focused on reducing instances of bullying and victimization, while increasing the safety of students in grades 3–5. The program is rated Promising. In all outcomes, the treatment schools showed statistically significant reductions in bullying, victimization, and witnessed aggression, as well as statistically significant increases in perceptions of safety at school. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Program |
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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: It's Your Game... Keep It Real |
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School safety, Dating violence, Victimization, Schools, Juvenile (under 18), Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Victims of crime | A health education program for 7th and 8th graders designed to delay sexual behavior and promote healthy dating relationships. The program is rated Promising. The program was shown to statistically significantly reduce emotional and physical dating violence victimization. However, the program did not have a statistically significant effect on physical perpetration of dating violence. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Phoenix (Arizona) Homicide Clearance Project |
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Homicide, Databases, Crime scene investigation, Evidence, Witnesses, Law enforcement, Violent crime, Crime prevention, Investigations, Law enforcement operations, Victims of crime, Forensic sciences | This program aims to improve homicide clearance rates by increasing investigative time through the transfer of four crime scene specialists to the homicide unit. The program is rated No Effects. There were no statistically significant differences between treatment and comparison squads in case and victim clearance by arrest. There were also no statistically significant difference between squads in case and victim clearance by quick action and whodunit arrests, or quality of scene reports. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Minneapolis Center for Victim-Offender Mediation |
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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: |
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Program Profile: Canberra Reintegrative Shaming Experiments |
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Larceny/theft, Alcohol, Diversion, Violent offenders, Victims of crime, Recidivism, Crime prevention, Property crime, Intimate partner violence, Procedural justice | This is a restorative justice program that uses conferencing to repair the harm. The program is rated Promising. Participants had a statistically significant lower likelihood of committing violent offenses, and a greater likelihood of reporting a belief in the law, negative attitude toward reoffending, and greater effort to not drive drunk, compared with the control group. There were mixed findings in the rate of drunk driving, and no difference in property crimes, shoplifting, or recidivism. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Success in Stages® Program |
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Bullying, School safety, Computers, Youth development, School climate, Juvenile (under 18), Child health and welfare, Victims of crime | This was an antibullying program for all students involved: victims, passive bystanders, and bullies. The program is rated Promising. Elementary, middle, and high school treatment groups experienced statistically significant greater proportions of students reporting no participation in bullying-related roles at the posttests. The elementary student treatment group saw statistically significant reductions in bullying and victimization but no statistically significant change in bystander behavior. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Caring School Community |
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Schools, Substance abuse, Underage drinking, School safety, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Larceny/theft, Property crime, Crime prevention, Child health and welfare, Juvenile (under 18), Juvenile delinquency, Victimization, Victims of crime, Alcohol, Legal substances, Drugs | This is a school-based program designed to improve students’ school attitudes and reduce delinquency. The program is rated Promising. The program showed a statistically significant positive effect on participants’ attainment of higher rates of supportive behavior and spontaneous prosocial behavior, compared with students who did not participate. There were no statistically significant effects on negative behavior, harmoniousness, substance/alcohol use, property damage, theft, or victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Steps to Respect® |
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Bullying, School safety, Youth development, School climate, Child health and welfare, Victimization, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a schoolwide bullying prevention program that seeks to reduce bullying perpetration and victimization by increasing staff awareness and students’ social–emotional skills. The program is rated No Effects. Despite some statistically significant findings, there were no statistically significant differences between students in intervention and control schools in self-reported bullying victimization, observed nonphysical bullying, self-reported bullying perpetration, and gossip victimization. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Indianapolis (Ind.) Family Group Conferencing Experiment |
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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: Shifting Boundaries (Classroom Curriculum and Schoolwide Intervention) |
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Dating violence, School safety, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Schools, Crime prevention, Juvenile (under 18), Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Intimate partner violence, Victims of crime | This dual intervention aims to reduce peer violence and sexual harassment in middle schoolers by emphasizing consequences and increasing surveillance of unsafe areas. The program is rated Promising. The intervention group had statistically significant reductions in sexual victimization and in violence victimization and perpetration compared with those in the control group. There were no statistically significant effects on sexual harassment perpetration, or knowledge, attitudes, or intentions. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program (Albuquerque, N.M.) |
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Evidence, Rape and sexual assault, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Forensic sciences | This program provides specialized and coordinated services to victims of sexual assault during their first contact with the health care system. The program is rated Promising. Treatment group patients had a statistically significant greater number of referrals to victim services and greater likelihood of consenting to evidence collection, pregnancy tests, and STD treatment, compared with control group patients treated in the standard emergency room. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Second Responders Program (Redlands, CA) |
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Problem-oriented policing, Crime prevention, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Crisis response | The program model enlists second responders to make home visits to try to help victims find long-term solutions to help repeat incident victims of family violence including intimate partner abuse, abuse within families or households, and elder abuse. The program is rated No Effects. Overall, the evidence found no statistically significant differences between the treatment and control groups on prevalence of and frequency of new domestic incidents and time to failure. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Prolonged Exposure Therapy |
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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 |
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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: Street Lighting in Stoke-on-Trent (England) |
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Burglary, Property crime, Situational crime prevention, Victims of crime | This program upgrades street lighting on residential roads and footpaths to decrease crime and fear of crime. This program is rated Effective. In the experimental area, there were statistically significant reductions in the incidence and prevalence rates of crime and in the percentage of respondents who knew a victim, compared with the control area. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Street Lighting in Dudley (England) |
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Larceny/theft, Motor vehicle theft, Robbery, Burglary, Property crime, Environmental design, Situational crime prevention, Victims of crime | This is a program designed to reduce crime by improving street lighting in residential areas. This program is rated Effective. There were statistically significant reductions in prevalence, incidence, and fear of crime in the experimental area compared with the control area. In addition, a statistically significant higher percentage of residents in the control area reported knowing someone who had been the victim of a crime compared with residents in the experimental area. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Post-Rape Video Intervention |
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Marijuana, Alcohol, Violent crime, Rape and sexual assault, Victims of crime, Drugs | This intervention is designed to reduce distress associated with forensic rape examinations and reduce the victims’ risk of developing psychopathology and substance use after an assault. The program is rated No Effects. At the 6-month follow up, there were no statistically significant differences between the treatment and nontreatment groups in alcohol, marijuana, or hard drug use, or in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, or depression. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: KiVa Antibullying Program |
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Bullying, School safety, Children exposed to violence, School climate, Victimization, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime, Cyberbullying, Child health and welfare | This school-based program delivered to elementary school students to reduce bullying and victimization was designed for national use in the Finnish comprehensive schools. This program is rated Promising. There were statistically significant reductions for self-reported bullying and victimization and peer-reported victimization for KiVa schools compared with control schools; however, there were no significant differences between treatment and comparison schools on peer-reported bullying. Date Posted: |
Randomized Controlled Trial | ||
Program Profile: Fourth R Curriculum |
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Dating violence, School safety, Rape and sexual assault, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Juvenile (under 18), Crime prevention, Victimization, Intimate partner violence, Violent crime, Victims of crime, Drugs | This interactive classroom curriculum is designed to reduce youth dating violence by addressing bullying, unsafe sexual behavior, and substance use. The program is rated No Effects. The program had small, statistically significant effects on decreasing dating violence and sexual harassment/assault victimization. However, there were no significant effects on sexual harassment/assault perpetration, peer violence perpetration or victimization, sexual activity, substance use, or prosocial attitudes. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Safe Dates |
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Dating violence, Juvenile health, Sex offenders, School safety, Children exposed to violence, Trauma, Treatment, Victimization, Child health and welfare, Intimate partner violence, Juvenile (under 18), Victims of crime | This is a prevention program for middle and high school students, which is designed to stop or prevent dating violence perpetration and victimization. This program is rated Effective. The intervention group showed statistically significant reductions in psychological, physical, and sexual abuse perpetration, and physical abuse victimization, compared with the control group at the 4-year follow up; however, there were no significant differences between groups on sexual abuse victimization. Date Posted: |
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Program Profile: Clarke County (Ga.) Victim Impact Panels |
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Victim impact panels, Victims of crime | This restorative justice program requires persons convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol to attend panels at which they listen to victims give short presentations describing the pain and loss they have suffered due to a drunk driver. The program is rated Promising. After 5 years, there was a statistically significant decrease in rearrests for participants, compared with those who did not attend. Date Posted: |
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