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Using Interactive Television Instruction (ITV) to Reduce the Propensity to Engage in Substance Abuse and Drug Trafficking among Vulnerable Adolescents in Nigeria
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Verlumun Celestine Gever – Evaluation Review, 2025
This study examined the impact of ITV intervention on reduction in the propensity to abuse substances and engage in drug trafficking. The researcher conducted this study using an experiment of 517 vulnerable adolescents aged 10-19 years. The participants were randomly assigned to control (n = 258) and treatment (n = 259) groups. The researchers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Substance Abuse, Crime Prevention, Secondary School Students
The Effectiveness of an Electronic Security Management System in a Privately Owned Apartment Complex
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Greenberg, David F.; Roush, Jeffrey B. – Evaluation Review, 2009
Poisson and negative binomial regression methods are used to analyze the monthly time series data to determine the effects of introducing an integrated security management system including closed-circuit television (CCTV), door alarm monitoring, proximity card access, and emergency call boxes to a large privately-owned complex of apartment…
Descriptors: Crime, Crime Prevention, Public Housing, Program Effectiveness
Disarming Batterers through Restraining Orders: The Promise and the Reality in California
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Seave, Paul L. – Evaluation Review, 2006
Laws that prohibit persons under a domestic violence restraining order from purchasing or possessing a firearm are a primary way to keep guns out of the hands of batterers. In July 2005, the California Attorney General's Task Force on the Local Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Violence issued a report called Keeping the Promise: Victim Safety…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Gun Control, State Legislation, State Regulation
Funding Collaborative Juvenile Crime Prevention Programs: Does It Make a Difference?
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Worrall, John L. – Evaluation Review, 2004
Panel data were analyzed to determine whether funding for collaborative juvenile crime prevention programs reduced arrests in California counties. Because the data were a population (i.e., all 58 counties in the state), regression results were summarized descriptively, and special attention was given to the direction and magnitude of key…
Descriptors: Crime, Crime Prevention, Counties, Juvenile Justice
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the New South Wales Adult Drug Court Program
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Shanahan, Marian; Lancsar, Emily; Haas, Marion; Lind, Bronwyn; Weatherburn, Don; Chen, Shuling – Evaluation Review, 2004
In New South Wales, Australia, a cost-effectiveness evaluation was conducted of an adult drug court (ADC) program as an alternative to jail for criminal offenders addicted to illicit drugs. This article describes the program, the cost-effectiveness analysis, and the results. The results of this study reveal that, for the 23-month period of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cost Effectiveness, Substance Abuse, Program Evaluation
Evaluation of the Demerit Points System in Deterring Traffic Offenses.
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Haque, Mohammed Ohidul – Evaluation Review, 1990
A statistical model is presented for evaluating the effectiveness of the Demerit Points System of Victoria (Australia) in reducing traffic offenses. Estimates of the mean waiting time between offenses were made by maximum likelihood methods. Empirical results with 46,982 drivers--participants in a Driver Improvement Program--support the system's…
Descriptors: Adults, Crime Prevention, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries