Outcome Evaluation of the Teens, Crime, and the Community/Community Works (TCC/CW) Training Program in Nine Cities Across Four States, 2004-2005
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
Esbensen, Finn-Aage
adolescents
alcohol abuse
bullying
crime
crime in schools
delinquent behavior
drug abuse
educational environment
evaluation
fear of crime
gang members
gangs
juvenile crime
juvenile gangs
juveniles
neighborhood conditions
outcome evaluation
reactions to crime
school security
school violence
social problems
substance abuse
victimization
weapons
In 1985, the Teens, Crime, and the Community and Community Works (TCC/CW) program, a collaborative effort by the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and Street Law, Inc., was developed in an effort to reduce adolescent victimization. The purpose of the study was to assess whether the TCC/CW program was successfully implemented and whether it achieved its desired outcome, namely to reduce adolescent victimization. Following an extensive effort to identify potential sites for inclusion in the TCC/CW program outcome evaluation, a quasi-experimental five-wave panel study of public school students was initiated in the fall of 2004. Classrooms in the sample were matched by teacher or subject and one-half of the classrooms received the TCC/CW curriculum while the other half (the control group) was not exposed to the curriculum. A total of 1,686 students representing 98 classrooms in 15 middle schools located in 9 cities in 4 different states were surveyed 3 times: pre-tests in Fall 2004 (Part 1), post-tests in Spring 2005 (Part 2), and through a one-year follow-up survey in Fall 2005 (Part 3). A total of 227 variables are included in Part 1, 297 in Part 2, and 290 in Part 3. Most of these variables are the same across waves, including demographic variables, variables measuring whether the students are involved in extracurricular and other school related activities, community service, religious activities, family activities, employment, or illegal activities and crime, variables measuring the students' views regarding bullying, schoolwork, school and neighborhood violence, property crimes, drug use, alcohol use, gun violence, vandalism, skipping school, inter-racial tensions, neighborhood poverty, and law-enforcement officers, variables measuring how students react to anger, risk, conflict with fellow students, and how they handle long-term versus short-term decision-making, variables measuring group dynamics, variables measuring students' self-esteem, and variables measuring students' awareness of resources in their respective school and neighborhood to address problems and provide support.
25865
http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25865.v1
03-30-2011
survey data
Pre-test student questionnaire administered in Fall 2004 (Part 1), post-test student questionnaires administered in Spring 2005 (Part 2), and the one-year follow-up student questionnaire administered in Fall 2005 (Part 3).
Arizona
Massachusetts
New Mexico
South Carolina
United States
2004
2005
2005