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Public Safety Trends in MAP Communities and Matched Comparison Areas

May 10, 2019May 11, 2019by JohnJayREC

Was the presence of the MAP initiative in some NYCHA developments associated with greater improvements in crime and victimization outcomes compared with the same outcomes in NYCHA developments not involved in MAP? The results presented here do not answer the question in full, but they offer an early look at efforts by the research team to generate more precise answers. Additional analyses are needed to rule out competing explanations and to examine the complex series of relationships among all the study’s variables. Based on the preliminary findings in this report, however, the results of MAP to date may be considered promising.

Angela Silletti, Anthony Vega, Community Interventions, Evaluation, Jeffrey Butts, John Roman, JohnJayREC Products, Monographs, NYC Mayor's Action Plan, Violence, Wogod Alawlaqi

Measurement Plan and Analytic Strategies for Evaluating the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety

January 11, 2019May 10, 2019by JohnJayREC

This second in a series of reports about the evaluation of the New York City Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP). This Evaluation Update: summarizes the goals and methods used to evaluate the Mayor’s Action Plan; describes the quasi-experimental design used to test the outcomes and impacts of MAP as well as the data sources assembled by the research team and how they are used; and portrays a logical framework the research team used initially to identify causal pathways through which various elements of MAP were intended to achieve their desired effect.

Crime Data Analysis, Data Bits & Research Briefs, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products

Mixed News About Youth Violence in Recent FBI Crime Data

September 26, 2018March 2, 2019by JohnJayREC

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting series tracks violent crime trends using the four offenses of murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. According to the FBI, youth arrests for these offenses grew one percent between 2016 and 2017.

ACE, Articles, Kevin Wolff

Considering the Mediating Effects of Drug and Alcohol Use, Mental Health, and Their Co-Occurrence on the Adverse Childhood Experiences–Recidivism Relationship

September 12, 2018September 13, 2018by JohnJayREC

Using data from a large sample of adjudicated juveniles in Florida, this study examines the mediating effects of drug and alcohol use, mental health problems, and their co-occurrence on the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and recidivism.

Community Interventions, Evaluation, Gina Moreno, Jeffrey Butts, JohnJayREC Products, Laila Alsabahi, Monographs, NYC Mayor's Action Plan, Richard Espinobarros, Sheyla Delgado, Violence, Wogod Alawlaqi

Quasi-Experimental Comparison Design for Evaluating the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety

August 10, 2018May 10, 2019by JohnJayREC

To evaluate the New York City Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), an initiative to improve the safety of public housing developments, researchers estimated the counterfactual (no intervention) by selecting a set of comparison housing developments not involved in the initiative. The study relied on the statistical method known as propensity score analysis (PSA) to select the comparison group.

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Trying to Cut Crime in Public Housing by Making it More Livable

July 10, 2018July 13, 2018by JohnJayREC

Working elevators, summer jobs for teenagers, community centers open till midnight, residents who know what to do when the trash piles up — no one would doubt that these are good things. But it seems a stretch to call them crime prevention measures. Will people really commit fewer robberies and shootings if the trash gets picked up?