Scared smart or bored straight? Testing deterrence logic in an evaluation of police-led truancy intervention

Bazemore, Gordon; Stinchcomb, Jeanne B.; Leip, Leslie A.

doi:10.1080/07418820400095811

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“…Public policy changes toward status offenses such as truancy have also led to more deinstitutional interventions such as community-based treatment (Steinhart 1996). In general, however, many jurisdictions and schools adopt a criminalist model of absenteeism (Bazemore et al 2004;Pell 2000).…”

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An Interdisciplinary Model of School Absenteeism in Youth to Inform Professional Practice and Public Policy

2008

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Problematic school absenteeism in youth has long been a complex and vexatious issue for psychologists, educators, and researchers from other disciplines. An examination of problematic school absenteeism from different perspectives over many decades has led to poor comparability across publications, policies, and assessment and intervention protocols. This article briefly reviews literature from psychology, social/criminal justice, and education to outline important factors that influence school absenteeism. An interdisciplinary model is then proposed with an emphasis on common terminology and definitions, comprehensiveness with respect to proximal and distal influences, fluidity and flexibility to account for rapid changes in this population, and user-friendliness to generate suggestions regarding assessment and intervention. Implications of the model are then drawn for professional practice and public policy, including recommendations for individual and systemic intervention at multiple levels of risk and severity.

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An Interdisciplinary Model of School Absenteeism in Youth to Inform Professional Practice and Public Policy

2008

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“…One particular program, initiated by the sheriff's department in a large urban county, attempted to reduce truancy rates by utilizing a crime control model (Bazemore, Stinchcomb, & Leip, 2004). Truant students were picked up by police officers and taken to a central Truancy Unit.…”

Section: The General State Of Truancy Programs In the United Statesmentioning

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Truancy Intervention Programs

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Gulledge

2008

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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School truancy, particularly in primary and secondary schools, represents a serious issue deserving attention in communities across the nation. Most often treated as a management and disciplinary problem, serious attention to the underlying causes of truancy is usually given after the youth's absence from school becomes frequent or chronic. Truant youths are at considerable risk of continuing their troubled behavior in school, experiencing psychosocial difficulties, and entering the juvenile justice system. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, truancy has not received significant attention by criminologists. This paper addresses three questions: (1) What kinds of truancy programs exist in the U.S? (2) What evidence do we have regarding their effectiveness? (3) What system and programmatic issues present obstacles to implementing successful truancy programs, and need to be considered in establishing effective programs? Finally, we discuss efforts that are underway in Hillsborough County, Florida in implementing an effective continuum of service for truant youths and their families.

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“…This focus on specific deterrence has included evaluations of the impact of incarceration [1]–[4], fines [2], restitution [5], and other penalties [6], [7] among charged or convicted offenders. Researchers have also investigated the specific deterrent effect of arrest, compared with less severe interventions, such as warnings, on offenders who have been contacted by the police about their apparent criminal behavior [8]–[10].…”

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A Large Specific Deterrent Effect of Arrest for Patronizing a Prostitute

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BackgroundPrior research suggests that arrest, compared with no police detection, of some types of offenders does not decrease the chances they will reoffend.Methodology/Principal FindingsWe assessed the specific deterrent effect of arrest for patronizing a street prostitute in Colorado Springs by comparing the incidence of arrest for clients of prostitutes first detected through public health surveillance with the incidence of rearrest for clients first detected by police arrest. Although these sets of clients were demographically and behaviorally similar, arrest reduced the likelihood of a subsequent arrest by approximately 70%. In other areas of the United States, arrest did not appear to displace a client's patronizing.Conclusions/SignificanceOur results suggest that apprehending clients decreases their patronizing behavior substantially.

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Scared smart or bored straight? Testing deterrence logic in an evaluation of police-led truancy intervention

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

An Interdisciplinary Model of School Absenteeism in Youth to Inform Professional Practice and Public Policy

An Interdisciplinary Model of School Absenteeism in Youth to Inform Professional Practice and Public Policy

Truancy Intervention Programs

A Large Specific Deterrent Effect of Arrest for Patronizing a Prostitute

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