Preventing Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offending: A Review of Evaluations of Selected Strategies in Childhood, Adolescence, and the Community (From Sourcebook on Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders, P 61-141, 1995, James C. Howell, Barry Krisberg, et. al., eds)

• NCJ Number: 165067
• Author(s): D D Brewer; J D Hawkins; R F Catalano; H J Neckerman
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 81 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Literature Review
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Youth, Guns and Violence

Annotation

Seventeen types of programs for preventing juvenile crime and violence are reviewed with respect to their effectiveness with respect to addressing known risk factors.

Abstract

The 17 intervention areas include classroom management, organization, and instruction; school behavior management strategies; conflict resolution/violence prevention curricula; peer mediation; peer counseling; school organization; intensive family preservation services; parent training; and marital/family therapy. Additional intervention areas include mentoring; after-school recreation; gang prevention; youth service; vocational training and employment; community laws and policies related to weapons; policing strategies; and community mobilization. Effective interventions include reductions of class size for kindergarten and first-grade classes, continuous progress instructional strategies, cooperative learning, tutoring, ability grouping within classes in elementary schools, and others. Ineffective interventions include humanistic and developmental instructional strategies, teacher aides, the nonpromotion of students to the next grade, and others. Potentially promising program areas include structured playground activities, behavioral consultation for schools, peer mediation, conflict resolution and violence prevention curricula, and many others. List of contracts for more information on effective programs and approximately 250 references