Exploring Community-Based Options for Reducing Youth Crime

Kim Edmunds; Laura Wall; Scott Brown; Andrew Searles; Anthony P. Shakeshaft; Christopher M. Doran

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Exploring Community-Based Options for Reducing Youth Crime

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Exploring Community-Based Options for Reducing Youth Crime

Kim Edmunds, Laura Wall, Scott Brown, Andrew Searles, Anthony P. Shakeshaft and Christopher M. Doran

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol.18(10), pp.1-12

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105097

PMID: 34065813

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Abstract

Youth crime

community

Preference

intervention

economic

BackTrack is a multi-component, community-based intervention designed to build capacity amongst 14-17-year-old high risk young people. The aim of the current study seeks to explore community value and preferences for reducing youth crime and improving community safety using BackTrack in a rural setting in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The study design used discrete choice experiments (DCEs), designed in accordance with the 10-item checklist outlined by the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. The DCE was pilot tested on 43 participants to test feasibility and comprehension. A revised version of the survey was subsequently completed by 282 people over a 12-day period between 30 May 2016 and 10 June 2016, representing a survey response rate of 35%. Ninety per cent of respondents were residents of Armidale, the local rural town where BackTrack was implemented. The DCE generated results that consistently demonstrated a preference for social programs to address youth crime and community safety in the Armidale area. Respondents chose BackTrack over Greater Police Presence 75% of the time with an annual benefit of Australian dollars (AUD) 150 per household, equivalent to a community benefit of AUD 2.04 million. This study estimates a strong community preference for BackTrack relative to more policing (a community willing to pay equivalent to AUD 2.04 million) highlighting the clear value of including community preferences when evaluating community-based programs for high-risk young people.

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Title: Exploring Community-Based Options for Reducing Youth Crime
Authors: Kim Edmunds - Griffith University
Laura Wall - University of Newcastle Australia
Scott Brown - University of Newcastle Australia
Andrew Searles - Hunter Medical Research Institute
Anthony P. Shakeshaft - UNSW Sydney
Christopher M. Doran - Central Queensland University
Publication details: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol.18(10), pp.1-12
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2021
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18105097
ISSN: 1660-4601
PMID: 34065813
Copyright note: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Data Availability: No restrictions apply to the availability of these data and are available from the corresponding author.
Grants: Intervention trial to reduce alcohol related harms among high risk young Indigenous Australians, 1048069, National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - NHMRC
Organisation Unit: School of Health - Psychology
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991241467802621
Output Type: Journal article

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