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Reducing Minority Overrepresentation in Juvenile Justice: Results of Community-Based Delinquency Prevention in Harrisburg

WAYNE N. WELSH

PATRICIA H. JENKINS

PHILIP W. HARRIS

To reduce minority overrepresentation in its juvenile justice system, Pennsylvania sponsored nine community-based delinquency prevention programs in Harrisburg and Philadelphia. The authors describe results of their evaluation of the Harrisburg programs over a three-year period (1992 to 1995), reporting two-year follow-up data for the 1992-93 cohort (N = 191). The major objective was to reduce rates of arrest and rearrest for clients; programs also attempted to reduce major risk factors such as educational failure, dropout, and truancy. Using quasi-experimental comparison groups based on program attendance (control, low, and high), program effects are examined using logistic regression and multivariate analysis of variance. Programs were successful in reducing recidivism: over one-year and two-year follow-up periods, 2 recidivism was lowest for the high-attendance group. Program effects on school outcomes, however, were generally weak. Implications for policy and program development are discussed.

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 36, No. 1, 87-110 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0022427899036001006
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