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What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy ((SSEBCP))

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The main aim of this chapter is to assess systematic reviews of the effects of developmental and social prevention programs. These programs are defined as community-based programs designed to prevent antisocial behavior, targeted on children and adolescents up to age 18, and aiming to change individual, family, or school risk factors. Only evaluations that reported effects on the outcomes of delinquency, offending, violence, aggression, or bullying were included. In total, 33 systematic reviews were summarized: three general reviews, five reviews of individually focused interventions, eight reviews of family-based programs, and 17 reviews of school-based programs (four of which were targeted individual risk factors). It was possible to calculate effect sizes and confidence intervals from 22 reviews. Every summary odds ratio effect size was greater than 1, indicating that all types of programs were effective. Furthermore, the effect size was statistically significant in 18 out of 22 cases. The median effect size was 1.55, which corresponds (on some reasonable assumptions) to a decrease in offending of about 30 %. This chapter makes recommendations about how to improve systematic reviews and concludes that more investment in developmental and social prevention is warranted.

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Farrington, D.P., Ttofi, M.M., Lösel, F.A. (2016). Developmental and Social Prevention. In: Weisburd, D., Farrington, D., Gill, C. (eds) What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation. Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3477-5_2

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