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This group is coordinating a new citywide strategy to reduce crime in Mount Vernon, New York.

Evidence-Based Interventions

• Preventing Crime- What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

This Report to Congress, funded by the National Institute of Justice, is a comprehensive review of decades of research on the effectiveness of every major crime reduction strategy supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. This resource is invaluable for anyone trying to allocate scarce prevention resources to interventions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.

• Summary of "Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

This 19-page "Research in Brief" from the National Institute of Justice summarizes the major conclusions of a comprehensive review of decades of evidence for the effectiveness of every major crime prevention strategy.

• Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth

This study includes a table listing benefits, costs, and benefits per dollar of cost for 61 common evidence-based model programs.

• Model Programs Guide
  
  

Other Criminal Justice Information and Resources

• 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, report finds:

NEW YORK - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Prison spending ballooned from $11 billion to $49 billion in 2 decades. “Getting tough on criminals has gotten tough on taxpayers,” said the project’s director, Adam Gelb. “For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling,” the report said. “While one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 34 is behind bars, for black males in that age group the figure is one in nine.”