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Fast Track intervention effects on youth arrests and delinquency.

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Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group,
Published in: Journal of experimental criminology
June 2010

This paper examines the effects of the Fast Track preventive intervention on youth arrests and self-reported delinquent behavior through age 19. High-risk youth randomly assigned to receive a long-term, comprehensive preventive intervention from 1st grade through 10th grade at four sites were compared to high-risk control youth. Findings indicated that random assignment to Fast Track reduced court-recorded juvenile arrest activity based on a severity weighted sum of juvenile arrests. Supplementary analyses revealed an intervention effect on the reduction in the number of court-recorded moderate-severity juvenile arrests, relative to control children. In addition, among youth with higher initial behavioral risk, the intervention reduced the number of high-severity adult arrests relative to the control youth. Survival analyses examining the onset of arrests and delinquent behavior revealed a similar pattern of findings. Intervention decreased the probability of any juvenile arrest among intervention youth not previously arrested. In addition, intervention decreased the probability of a self-reported high-severity offense among youth with no previous self-reported high-severity offense. Intervention effects were also evident on the onset of high-severity court-recorded adult arrests among participants, but these effects varied by site. The current findings suggest that comprehensive preventive intervention can prevent juvenile arrest rates, although the presence and nature of intervention effects differs by outcome.

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Journal of experimental criminology

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1572-8315

ISSN

1573-3750

Publication Date

June 2010

Volume

6

Issue

2

Start / End Page

131 / 157

Related Subject Headings

  • Criminology
  • 4402 Criminology
  • 1602 Criminology
 

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Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, . (2010). Fast Track intervention effects on youth arrests and delinquency. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 6(2), 131–157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-010-9091-7
Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, Conduct Problems Prevention Research. “Fast Track intervention effects on youth arrests and delinquency.Journal of Experimental Criminology 6, no. 2 (June 2010): 131–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-010-9091-7.
Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. Fast Track intervention effects on youth arrests and delinquency. Journal of experimental criminology. 2010 Jun;6(2):131–57.
Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, Conduct Problems Prevention Research. “Fast Track intervention effects on youth arrests and delinquency.Journal of Experimental Criminology, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 131–57. Epmc, doi:10.1007/s11292-010-9091-7.
Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. Fast Track intervention effects on youth arrests and delinquency. Journal of experimental criminology. 2010 Jun;6(2):131–157.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of experimental criminology

DOI

EISSN

1572-8315

ISSN

1573-3750

Publication Date

June 2010

Volume

6

Issue

2

Start / End Page

131 / 157

Related Subject Headings

  • Criminology
  • 4402 Criminology
  • 1602 Criminology