Streetwork at the crossroads
An evaluation of a street gang outreach intervention and holistic appraisal of the research evidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9680475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Hureau (0000-0002-9227-2729, School of Criminal Justice University at Albany SUNY, corresponding author), Anthony A Braga (0000-0002-5815-3734, Department of Criminology University of Pennsylvania), Tracey Lloyd (Center for Policing Equity), C Winship (0000-0002-0632-241X, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 758-794 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1745-9125.12353 |
| OpenAlex | W4387858858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 80 |
Spurred by the success of public health violence interventions, and accelerated by policy pressure to reduce violence without exacerbating overpolicing and mass incarceration, streetwork programs—those that provide anti‐violence services by neighborhood‐based workers who perform their work beyond the walls of parochial institutions—have positioned themselves as the most important non–law‐enforcement violence prevention option available to urban policy makers. Yet despite their importance, the state of the field seems difficult to interpret for academics and practitioners alike. In this article, we make several contributions that bring forth new findings and deliver new perspectives on streetwork as a violence reduction strategy. First, we offer an extended analytic review of the streetwork evaluation literature that connects the study of contemporary public health violence interventions to a preceding tradition of criminologically inspired streetwork studies. Second, we present the results of an impact evaluation of StreetSafe Boston (SSB)—a multiyear streetwork intervention that served 20 Boston gangs. We find that the SSB intervention had no detectable effect on violence among the gangs that it served. We conclude by offering a framework for understanding a field at multiple crossroads: past and present, proclaimed successes and failures, help and harm
Criminology · Enforcement · Harm · Harm reduction · Intervention (counseling · Law enforcement · Outreach · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology
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The role of community policing in communities with serious gang problems
Re-Centering the Community in Violence Intervention
Turning Toward the Community
Gun violence is a public health crisis that needs more applied criminologists
Exploring Contextual Influences on the Implementation and Impact of Safe Streets, a Community Violence Intervention
Does the public support anti-gang policies and practices and can opinions be swayed? Experimental evidence from a National Survey of Americans
Multidisciplinary teams, street outreach, and gang intervention
Between the state and the streets
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger
Cities and Policing for Crime Prevention
Street gangs and street workers
Delinquency and opportunity
Great American City
Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
Structural Holes
The Culture of Control
Randomization Analysis of Experimental Data
Cure Violence
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Cem
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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
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Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality
The Youth Gang Problem
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New Directions in the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
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Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
Collective and normative features of gang violence
A thirty-year follow-up of treatment effects
An evaluator’s reflections and lessons learned about gang intervention strategies
Whither streetwork
Too big to fail
Comprehensive gang and violence reduction programs
Changing the Street Dynamic
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Recruitment through Rule Breaking
Effects of Baltimore’s Safe Streets Program on Gun Violence
Evaluating Crime Prevention
Intervention in juvenile delinquency
The Little Village Project
Research in Delinquent Subcultures 1
The Chicago Area Project—A 25-Year Assessment
A Follow-up Report on the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study
Punishment's place
Disputes Involving Youth Street Gang Members
The Company You Keep? The Spillover Effects of Gang Membership on Individual Gunshot Victimization in a Co‐offending Network
Group Cohesiveness, Gang Member Prestige, and Delinquency and Violence in Chicago, 1959–1962
The Trade in Tools
Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence
An Experiment in the Prevention of Delinquency
Community and the Crime Decline
Production of Crime Rates
Surveillance and System Avoidance
The Corner and the Crew
Of Time and Space
The Impact of a 'Total-Community' Delinquency Control Project
Cultural Mechanisms and the Persistence of Neighborhood Violence
Murder by Structure
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |