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Family, Peer and Neighborhood-level Protective Factors within the Developmental Assets Framework: A Longitudinal Analysis of Behavioral Adaptation for Urban Youth Exposed to Community Violence in Chicago, 1994-2002 (ICPSR 22661)

Released/updated on: 2013-01-31

Geographic coverage: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Time period: 1995-01-01--2001-01-01

This study used longitudinal data from 1,114 youth ages 11-16 and their neighborhoods from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine whether baseline interpersonal and neighborhood protective factors predicted behavioral adjustment at waves 2 and 3 among youth who were victims of, witnesses of, or unexposed to violence, controlling for individual and neighborhood-level risks.

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A National Evaluation of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Training, [United States], 2019-2022 (ICPSR 38880)

Released/updated on: 2024-03-13

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2019-10-01--2020-09-01, 2020-10-01--2021-09-01, 2021-10-01--2022-09-01

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)'s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program provides TTA to ICAC task force members and their affiliate agencies to support the investigation of ICAC cases. However, little is known about the quality, implementation fidelity, outcomes, and costs associated with ICAC TTA Program training. This study was designed to fill this gap and focused on examining the quality, implementation fidelity, and costs of OJJDP-funded ICAC trainings, as well as participant reactions to training such as perceptions of quality and satisfaction, perceived changes in knowledge and skills, and perceived training results. Using a descriptive design, this study used multiple data collection and analysis approaches, including those that involved extant data collected by TTA providers (i.e., surveys, pre-post tests, implementation data, cost data) and original data collected by the evaluation team (i.e., observations, surveys, interviews, cost data). Findings suggest that overall, ICAC investigative training was rated highly by both trainees and their ICAC commanders in terms of the quality of training delivery, expertise of instructors, knowledge gains, and applicability to on-the-job ICAC investigations. Costs associated with ICAC training suggest a total cost of about $10.3 million to provide ICAC training over the three-year evaluation period, with annual average costs ranging from $2.9 million to $4.3 million over this period. Findings from this study are intended to support OJJDP in its understanding of the ICAC TTA Program to develop and deliver investigative TTA to ICAC task forces.

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Outcome Evaluation of Tribes Learning Communities in California, 2007-2010 (ICPSR 32821)

Released/updated on: 2012-12-20

Geographic coverage: San Francisco, United States, California

Time period: 2007-01-01--2010-01-01

This study was an outcome evaluation that employed a group randomized experimental design to assess the effectiveness of a school-based violence prevention program known as Tribes in preventing youth violence. The study took place in elementary schools in the San Francisco Unified School District and targeted students in Kindergarten through Fifth grade. Within each school, teachers (and their students) were randomly assigned to the experimental condition, with teachers assigned to the intervention condition using Tribes in their classrooms and control teachers delivering usual lessons. Multiple, repeated measures, including teacher surveys and checklists, parent checklists, direct evaluator observations of classrooms, and individual student interviews were employed between May 2007 and November 2010. Researchers gathered data in four major outcome areas: classroom environment, teacher practices, and student behavior and reasoning.

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A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Capturing Kids' Hearts, South Carolina, 2016-2018 (ICPSR 37954)

Released/updated on: 2021-07-29

Geographic coverage: United States, South Carolina

Time period: 2016-01-01--2018-12-31

Funded by the National Institute of Justice, and in collaboration with the Flippen Group, the South Carolina Department of Education, and the districts of Charleston, Georgetown, Greenville, and Richland County Schools, WestEd conducted a randomized controlled trial of violence prevention and a school climate improvement program known as Capturing Kids' Hearts Campus by Design (CKH).

CKH is a skill intensive, systematic process, whole-school intervention, designed to strengthen students' connectedness to school through enhancing protective factors (strong bonds with teachers, clear rules of conduct that are consistently enforced) and targeting modifiable risk factors (inappropriate behavior, poor social coping skills). The CKH training program aims to address the mechanisms and processes of social skills instruction that lead to improved student behavior by promoting skills acquisition (i.e., modeling, coaching, and behavioral rehearsal), enhancing skills performance, removing competing behavior, and facilitating maintenance of social skills.

Components of CKH have been widely used throughout the United States. As of 2013, CKH training has been offered to over 200,000 staff in more than 7,000 schools. Although widely used, the whole package of CKH training and service has not been sufficiently subjected to a rigorous evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the program.

The purpose of this study is to test and evaluate the Capturing Kids' Hearts package of programs and processes offered in the school-wide model, CKH Campus by Design, which includes Capturing Kids' Hearts, Process Champions-Plus, Campus TrAction Pacs, Teen Leadership, CKH Recharged, and Leadership Blueprint.

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Registry of Randomized Criminal Justice Experiments in Sanctions, 1951-1983 (ICPSR 9668)

Released/updated on: 1997-08-15

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1951-01-01--1983-01-01

This registry categorizes, summarizes, and analyzes datasets containing information on randomized criminal justice experiments in sanctions. These datasets vary in methodology, geographic region, and other aspects. Among the topics covered in this registry are the nature of offense being sanctioned, type of sanction, racial and sexual composition of the sample, and procedures and outcomes of each collection.