RT Article
T1 Advancing Interorganizational Crime and Violence Reduction Goals Through a Relational Change Intervention
JF Criminal justice policy review
VO 33
IS 5
SP 455
OP 479
A1 Gebo, Erika
A2 Bond, Brenda J.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1801909660
AB Effective interorganizational collaboration is deemed essential to comprehensive crime and violence initiatives but rarely is it empirically assessed. An 18-month intervention to improve collaboration Comprehensive Gang Model (CGM) locations was used in this study to examine the impact on increasing community capacity to address gangs and violence and reducing gang and violence in the community. Relational coordination theory grounded the collaboration intervention. Results from the quasi-experimental design showed significant, increased collaboration and reduction in violent crime in one intervention site. Other crime reduction efforts were explored as counterfactuals. Matched comparison sites saw no change in the ability to work together or violence reduction. Study implications are that relational coordination interventions may facilitate the goal of working better together, but parallel evaluations for each of the five core CGM strategies are needed to understand the independent effects of each strategy on gang and violence reduction goals.
K1 interorganizational collaboration
K1 Comprehensive Gang Model
K1 Crime Reduction
K1 Criminal Justice Policy
DO 10.1177/08874034211065996