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  • Truancy Intervention Reduces Crime: Results from a Randomized Field Trial

    Author(s)
    Bennett, Sarah
    Mazerolle, Lorraine
    Antrobus, Emma
    Eggins, Elizabeth
    Piquero, Alex R
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Eggins, Liz G.
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    Educational attainment is a fundamental cornerstone to success throughout the life-course. As a result, ensuring that young people remain in school and are not truant is critical. Although the importance of truancy as a risk factor for many adverse outcomes, including crime, has been well-documented, much less methodologically rigorous work has been undertaken to evaluate potentially promising prevention and intervention strategies. This paper uses a randomized field trial method to test how a partnership between police and schools targeting truancy impacts offending in a sample of high-risk truanting young people. We find ...
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    Educational attainment is a fundamental cornerstone to success throughout the life-course. As a result, ensuring that young people remain in school and are not truant is critical. Although the importance of truancy as a risk factor for many adverse outcomes, including crime, has been well-documented, much less methodologically rigorous work has been undertaken to evaluate potentially promising prevention and intervention strategies. This paper uses a randomized field trial method to test how a partnership between police and schools targeting truancy impacts offending in a sample of high-risk truanting young people. We find that the truancy intervention reduces offending and we discuss the implications for practice and directions for future research.
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    Journal Title
    JUSTICE QUARTERLY
    Volume
    35
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2017.1313440
    Subject
    Criminology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/383493
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