Publications on Child and Adolescent Safety
2012
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Report — 2012
The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2010–2011, Corrections Standards Authority–mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2009-2010 Report — 2012
The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2009–2010, Corrections Standards Authority–mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.
2011
National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes — 2012
Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.
Reducing the Impact of Children's Exposure to Violence: Results of the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches — 2011
RAND's evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches identified program successes and challenges in implementing programs for children exposed to violence. The evaluation results, though largely inconclusive, can inform similar efforts going forward.
2010
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Report — 2010
The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2008–2009, Corrections Standards Authority-mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Report — 2010
The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2007-2008, Corrections Standards Authority-mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.
National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Implementation — 2010
Documents the program and community settings, interventions, and implementations of 15 programs across the country that provide interventions for families in which children have been exposed to violence. The 15 programs were part of Safe Start Promising Approaches, an initiative aimed at building knowledge about the effectiveness of specific intervention strategies intended to reduce the harmful effects of children's exposure to violence.
2009
The Costs of Methamphetamine Use: A National Estimate — 2009
The economic cost of methamphetamine use reached more than an estimated $23 billion in 2005, mostly from the intangible burden that addiction places on dependent users and their premature mortality and from crime and criminal justice costs.
The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005 — 2009
This first national estimate of the economic cost of methamphetamine (meth) use in the United States suggests that costs reached $23.4 billion in 2005. The analysis, with a lower-bound estimate of $16.2 billion and an upper-bound estimate of $48.3 billion, considers the burden of addiction, premature death, drug treatment, lost productivity, crime and criminal justice, health care, production and environmental hazards, and child endangerment.
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: RAND Quarterly Report, October 2008 — 2009
In July 2008, RAND Corporation staff conducted Correctional Program Checklist assessments of five home-based service providers as part of its ongoing evaluation of Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act activities through the Los Angeles County Probation Department. The authors determined whether the treatment interventions were consistent with the research literature on evidence-based practices and the principles of effective intervention.
Neighborhood Effects on Crime and Youth Violence: The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles — 2009
Business improvement districts (BIDs) collect assessments and invest in local service provisions and activities, such as place promotion, street cleaning, and public safety. Such activities can help reduce crime and youth violence by increasing informal social control, reducing signs of disorder and blight, improving order maintenance, and enriching job opportunities. This report examines BIDs' impact on crime and youth violence in Los Angeles.
2007
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Report — 2007
Legislation for the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act identifies six specific outcomes to measure success of intervention programs for participating youths: (1) successful completion of probation, (2) arrests, (3) probation violations, (4) incarcerations, (5) successful completion of restitution, and (6) successful completion of community service. This annual report summarizes those outcomes for FY04–05.
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Report — 2007
Legislation for the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act identifies six specific outcomes to measure success of intervention programs for participating youths: (1) successful completion of probation, (2) arrests, (3) probation violations, (4) incarcerations, (5) successful completion of restitution, and (6) successful completion of community service. This annual report summarizes those outcomes for FY05-06.
Using Outcomes to Assess Teen Substance-Use Treatment Programs -- How Feasible? — 2007
This study explored using outcome data to assess adolescent substance abuse treatment program performance. However, this approach may be problematic. A more promising approach may be to identify quality-of-care indicators for assessing performance.
2006
How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool Kit for Supporting Long-Term Recovery — 2006
This tool kit describes how trauma exposure impacts students’ performance and behavior and provides a compendium of programs for schools to support the long-term recovery of traumatized students. It also compares the programs with one another.
The Relative Effectiveness of 10 Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in the United States — 2006
This study compares the effectiveness of 11 U.S. community-based substance abuse treatment programs for adolescents. After accounting for pretreatment differences between the youths entering each program, no persuasive evidence was found to suggest that any program produced superior outcomes. The significance of the findings for current efforts to develop outcomes-based treatment performance measurement systems is highlighted in the discussion.
2005
Accomplishments in Juvenile Probation in California Over the Last Decade — 2005
Over the past ten years, probation departments across the state of California have undertaken five major initiatives aimed at juvenile offenders and at-risk youths. At the same time, juvenile arrests and incarcerations have fallen, teen pregnancies have dropped, the numbers of youths living below the poverty level has gone down, and high school graduation rates have increased. Although probation initiatives were concomitant with these positive outcomes, we cannot definitively attribute observed statewide trends to them.
Juvenile Probation Initiatives in California and Their Effects — 2005
Over the past ten years, probation departments across the state of California have undertaken five major initiatives aimed at juvenile offenders and at-risk youths.
Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act: Fiscal Year 2003-2004 Report — 2005
This report contains a summary of the fiscal year 2003-2004 (FY 03-04) findings reported to the Board of Corrections (BOC), as well as additional program information gathered by Los Angeles County Probation based on its oversight and monitoring of program implementation and outcomes.
2004
Evaluating Substance Abuse Treatment Programs for Adolescent Probationers — 2004
In this study, RAND researchers found that one substance abuse treatment program helped young probationers reduce substance abuse and improve their psychological functioning.
Oregon’s Measure 11 Sentencing Reform: Implementation and System Impact — 2004
Measure 11, passed in Oregon in 1994, imposed long mandatory prison terms for designated offenses, prohibited “earned time,” and provided for mandatory waiver of youthful offenders to adult court. This study analyzes the implementation of Measure 11 and its impact on prosecution, sentencing, and convictions. Findings show that Measure 11 has altered sentencing and case processing practices in Oregon, with offenders convicted of violent and sex-related offenses serving longer prison terms, but fewer being sentenced for these offenses.
Propensity Score Estimation with Boosted Regression for Evaluating Causal Effects in Observational Studies — 2004
Propensity score weights estimated using boosting eliminate most pretreatment group differences and substantially alter the apparent relative effects of adolescent substance abuse treatment.
2003
An Evaluation of Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Juvenile Probationers at Phoenix Academy of Los Angeles — 2003
In this chapter the authors describe the Phoenix Academy program, the design of RAND's Adolescent Treatment Models evaluation of the program, and characteristics of the 449 youths referred by Probation to Phoenix Academy or one of six other group homes included in the evaluation.
2002
School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent? — 2002
The authors compare the social benefits of school-based prevention programs' long-run impacts on a diverse set of different substances.
Using Marijauna May Not Raise the Risk Of Using Harder Drugs — 2002
A recent analysis by RAND's Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC) suggests that data typically used to support a marijuana gateway effect can be explained as well by a different theory.
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