TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Reducing crime among youth at risk for gang involvement
JO  - Criminology and public policy
A1  - Thornberry, Terence P.
A1  - Kearley, Brook
A1  - Gottfredson, Denise C.
A1  - Slothower, Molly P.
A1  - Devlin, Deanna N.
A1  - Fader, Jamie J.
SP  - 953
EP  - 989
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
N2  - Research Summary 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.     Policy Implications Modifying and extending evidence-based delinquency programs to gang-involved youth seems to be a reasonable strategy for developing a wider array of effective programs to respond to the challenge of street gangs. The differential findings by gang-risk status suggests that the juvenile justice system should expand the use of evidence-based community programs to higher risk youth, including those identified as being "at risk" because of their gang involvement.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1538-6473
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12395
ID  - ref1
ER  -