Towards a framework for preventing community violence among youth

Abt, Thomas

doi:10.1080/13548506.2016.1257815

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“…It also raises an interesting question on how to prioritize; crime prevention is most effective at locations with high volumes of crime (Abt 2017), but there could be an argument made to additionally focus efforts at locations where the risk of victimization is high. Preventive efforts directed at high risk for victimization locations, however, will likely produce lower effects due to the lower volumes of crime, unless much more directed preventive efforts can be used to counteract such a lowering of the impact.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bus Stops and Violence, Are Risky Places Really Risky?

Gerell

2018

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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Geographic forecasting of crime can be done by considering prior crime or by considering spatial risk factors, e.g., using risk terrain modeling (RTM). The present paper tests both methods, but primarily focuses on RTM and on increasing our understanding of forecasting by attempting to compare the spatial risk factors for where the number of crimes is high with the spatial risk factors for where the risk of victimization is high. This is performed by fitting negative binomial models on crime around bus stops and comparing them to the same models with the number of bus passengers as exposure variable. The models also take the surrounding environment into account by fitting multi-level models with neighborhood level predictors of concentrated disadvantage and collective efficacy. The results show that some types of facilities are risk factors for crime, but not for victimization. This results in new insights into how flows of people impact on forecasting, as for instance a school is a spatial risk factor for crime, while not being associated with an elevated risk per person. The results also show that the neighborhood level of collective efficacy is a stable and significant risk factor both for crime and for risk of victimization, highlighting a potential for better crime forecasting by combining different spatial and theoretical perspectives.

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Bus Stops and Violence, Are Risky Places Really Risky?

Gerell

2018

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…Abt (2017) suggests that the most successful interventions are those that combine multiple levels of prevention, suppression, and rehabilitation focused on the specific dynamics of risk within settings and develop an integrated set of services for places where violence is most likely to occur, for people most involved in violence, and for behaviours most associated with violence.…”

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Ending violence in childhood: a global imperative

Kumar¹,

Stern²,

Subrahmanian³

et al. 2017

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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“…between alcohol and violence given that highly-focused interventions across a variety of policy domains -in this case targeting individuals most likely to over-consume and, even more specifically, targeting those whose over-consumption is most likely to translate into violence -show the greatest likelihood of success (e.g. Abt, 2017). 4 The lack of publicprivate partnerships between state authorities and the private sector, which could help incentivize responsible consumption, also may help account for these modest results.…”

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Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Violent Brawls: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Bartenders in Bogotá, Colombia

Ham¹

2019

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials

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Excessive alcohol consumption tends to instigate violence, particularly in and around alcohol-serving establishments. Policies that ban or restrict alcohol have been shown to defuse violence but impose restrictions on the community and may be unenforceable in certain contexts. Fewer evidence exists regarding policies that raise awareness among bartenders and patrons of the adverse consequences of excessive alcohol consumption. This study evaluates an intervention conducted by the Bogotá mayor's office and Colombia's largest brewery to empower bartenders, provide didactic materials to bar patrons, and offer food and non-alcoholic drinks to bar patrons. The intervention has two primary objectives: i) reduce the negative consequences associated with the over-consumption of alcohol and ii) defuse conflicts between bartenders and patrons, and among patrons, that might escalate to violence within and around bars. Our unit of observation is the street segment, nested within police quadrants. We first randomize 221 police quadrants into treatment and control groups. Second, in the 109 treated quadrants, we randomly select eligible street segments with alcoholserving establishments to receive the intervention. This design captures both direct effects of the intervention on violent brawls for street segments within treated police quadrants and potential spillover effects across police quadrants.

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Towards a framework for preventing community violence among youth

Cited by 30 publications

References 52 publications

Bus Stops and Violence, Are Risky Places Really Risky?

Bus Stops and Violence, Are Risky Places Really Risky?

Ending violence in childhood: a global imperative

Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Violent Brawls: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Bartenders in Bogotá, Colombia

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