The Impact of the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative on City-Level Youth Crime Victimization Rates: Substantive Results and Implications for Evaluation

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The Impact of the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative on City-Level Youth Crime Victimization Rates: Substantive Results and Implications for Evaluation

Category: Crime, Firearm Policies, Homicide, Injury, Youth|Journal: Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (full text)|Author: A Perosino, C Goold, H Turner, P Campie, T Fronius, T Hanson|Year: 2019

Results indicated that Safe and Successful Youth Initiative had a statistically significant and positive impact on reducing the number of victims of violent crimes, aggravated assaults, and homicides per month that were reported to the police.
A city with SSYI has approximately 60 fewer victims of violence each year,
ages 14-24, per 100,000 citizens over the post-intervention period.
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