Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency: A Systematic Review of the Randomized Experimental Evidence
By Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, John Buehler. 2003
250 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0b7b93bd0e009f710ce2550ce19d02084d057150
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In Clinical Psychology
- David P. Farrington
- J. Murray
- Manuel Eisner
- Brandon C. Welsh
- Lisa M. Jones
- Kimberly J. Mitchell
- Iain Chalmers
- Maria M. Ttofi
In Sociology and Political Science
- David P. Farrington
- J. Murray
- Brandon C. Welsh
- Lisa M. Jones
- Kimberly J. Mitchell
- Manuel Eisner
- Iain Chalmers
- Christopher Wildeman
Citations in the corpus
- Defining and measuring youth digital citizenship (2016, background): “Research has shown that fear-based approaches are not effective public health strategies (Clayton et al., 1996; Petrosino et al., 2003).”
- Drawing conclusions about causes from systematic reviews of risk factors: The Cambridge Quality Checklists (2009, background): “For example, they have shown the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral treatments in reducing offender recidivism (Lipsey and Landenberger 2006), the moderate effects of child social skills training programs in preventing antisocial behavior (Losel and Beelman 2006), and the counter-productive effec”
- Trying to do more Good than Harm in Policy and Practice: The Role of Rigorous, Transparent, Up-to-Date Evaluations (2003, background): “…had a delinquent teenage son, I would be in no doubt that I would not wish him to be exposed to a “Scared Straight” program, however many uncontrolled before-and-after observational studies suggested that this would divert him from a criminal career (Petrosino, Turpin-Petrosino, and Buehler 2003).”
- The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children (2008, background): “For example, participating in “Scared Straight” prison visiting programs appears to cause an increase in delinquency for at-risk children (Petrosino, Turpin-Petrosino, and Buehler 2003).”
- Randomized experiments in criminology: What have we learned in the last two decades? (2005, background): “A systematic review by Petrosino et al. (2003b) found that reoffending was greater after Scared Straight in every one of seven evaluations.”