Oregon Juvenile Crime Prevention Evaluation –
Phase III

Research Questions: The Juvenile Crime Prevention Initiative is a statewide effort to prevent juvenile crime by targeting best practice services to high-risk youth, ages 10–17. The JCP evaluation addresses two key questions about the JCP initiative:
1. Do JCP programs and services help reduce youth risk factors and increase their protective factors?
2. Do JCP programs and services help decrease juvenile recidivism and/or the rate of first offenses for the non-offender population?

Project Design: The evaluation uses a performance measurement approach. Youth are assessed at point of contact through either juvenile departments or community agencies. Youth receiving services receive a reassessment at 6 month intervals after start of the program and at program completion. Arrest data are matched to assessment data each biennium.

Funding Source: Oregon Commission on Children and Families

Start Date: April 2006

Project Team

Principal Investigator

• Juliette R. Mackin, Ph.D.

Project Director

• Jerod M. Tarte , M.A.

Project Staff

• Anton Cox, B.A.
• Carrie J. Furrer, Ph.D.
• Mary Beth Sanders, B.S.

Reports and Publications

Mackin, J. R., Tarte, J. M., & Cox, A. A. (Sept. 2005). Native American Tribal Juvenile Prevention Programs Data Summary. A report to the Oregon Commission on Children and Families, Juvenile Crime Prevention. NPC Research: Portland, OR.
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