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Funding collaborative juvenile crime prevention programs: does it make a difference?
1Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
Evaluation Review
|October 16, 2004
Summary
Funding for collaborative juvenile crime prevention programs showed minimal impact on overall arrest rates in California counties. While some arrests were prevented, the effect varied significantly among the 14 funded counties.
Area of Science:
- Criminology
- Public Policy
- Sociology
Background:
- Juvenile crime prevention programs aim to reduce arrests.
- Collaborative approaches involve multiple stakeholders.
- Evaluating program effectiveness is crucial for policy decisions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess the impact of funding for collaborative juvenile crime prevention programs on arrest rates.
- To determine if such funding reduced felony, misdemeanor, and status offense arrests in California counties.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of panel data from all 58 California counties.
- Descriptive summarization of regression results.
- Focus on the direction and magnitude of key coefficients.
Main Results:
- Funding was associated with little to no overall reduction in arrests for felonies, misdemeanors, and status offenses.
- The estimated number of arrests prevented varied across the 14 counties that received funding.
Conclusions:
- The study found limited evidence that funding for collaborative juvenile crime prevention programs significantly reduced overall arrest rates.
- Program impact on preventing arrests was not uniform, showing variability across funded counties.