Examining the long-term effects of afterschool programming on juvenile crime: A study of the LA's BEST afterschool program.

Autor/inn/en	Huang, Denise; Goldschmidt, Pete; La Torre Matrundola, Deborah
Titel	Examining the long-term effects of afterschool programming on juvenile crime: A study of the LA's BEST afterschool program.
Quelle	In: International journal for research on extended education, 2 (2014) 1, S. 113-133 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2196-3673; 2196-7423
DOI	10.25656/01:22982
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-229826
Schlagwörter	Korrelation; Quasi-Experiment; Programm; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Kriminalität; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Effektivität; Jugendlicher; Kalifornien; Los Angeles, Calif.; USA
Abstract	This article examines the extent to which participation in a large urban afterschool program had an impact on reducing participants' future juvenile crime rate. The research tracked the academic and juvenile crime histories for a sample of 6,000 students, including 2,000 participants in LA's BEST and 4,000 matched control students not participating in the program. Multilevel propensity scores were used to match control to treatment students, and applied to multilevel longitudinal models and multilevel survival analyses methods to analyze the data. Results indicate that LA's BEST positively impacted the probability of juvenile crime. Furthermore, analyses indicated that students who were actively and intensely engaged benefited the most from the program. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2022/2