Comprehensive Community- and School-Based Interventions to Prevent Antisocial Behavior (From Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors and Successful Interventions, P 248-283, 1998, Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, eds. - See NCJ-171234)

• NCJ Number: 171245
• Author(s): R F Catalano; M W Arthur; J D Hawkins; L Berglund; J J Olson
• Date Published: 1998
• Length: 36 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This chapter reviews comprehensive school and community interventions to reduce risks and enhance protection to prevent adolescent antisocial behavior.

Abstract

Comprehensive interventions are defined as "interventions designed to change the social conditions and institutions that influence offending in residential communities." The most promising comprehensive models for preventing antisocial behavior among children and adolescents have been adopted from the field of public health. Comprehensive programs focused on reducing risk factors for heart and lung disease have demonstrated that community-level risk reduction is a viable prevention strategy to reduce risk factors for violence, delinquency, and drug abuse. The chapter reviews the recent history of comprehensive approaches to reducing antisocial behavior, and interventions that have shown promising results in studies using experimental or quasi-experimental designs. In addition, the chapter discusses methodological limitations of current research, and presents conclusions about the state of the field and directions for further research.