RT Article
T1 Reducing crime among youth at risk for gang involvement
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 17
IS 4
SP 953
OP 989
A1 Thornberry, Terence P.
A2 Kearley, Brook
A2 Gottfredson, Denise C.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1586373609
AB No gang prevention or intervention programs meet the standards for effectiveness promulgated by Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. This randomized controlled trial of a well‐known program—Functional Family Therapy—that was modified to address the needs of gang‐involved adolescents yields two main findings. First, youth at high risk for gang membership and their families engaged with and successfully completed the program at the same level as low‐gang‐risk youth. Second, the effectiveness results varied by gang‐risk status. For youth at high risk for gang membership, the treatment group had significantly lower recidivism rates at the 18‐month follow‐up as compared with a “treatment as usual” control group. For youth at low risk for gang membership, however, no consistent differences were found between the treated and control groups.
K1 Gangs
K1 Gang prevention
K1 Family therapy for court-involved youth
K1 Randomized controlled trial
K1 Functional Family Therapy
K1 Bandenkriminalität
K1 Straßenbanden
K1 Jugendbanden
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12395