Transcription of Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
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Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
Department of JusticeOffice of justice ProgramsNational Institute of JusticeR e s e a r c h i n B r i e fNational Institute of JusticeJeremy Travis, DEPARTMENTOFJUSTICE OFFICEOFJUSTICEPROGRAMSBJANIJOJJDPBJSOVC P reventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn t, What s Promisingby Lawrence W. Sherman, Denise C. Gottfredson, Doris L. MacKenzie, John Eck,Peter Reuter, and Shawn D. BushwayJuly 1998 These are the major conclusions of a1997 report to Congress, which was basedon a systematic review of more than 500scientific evaluations of crime preventionpractices. This Research in Brief summa-rizes the research methods and conclu-sions found in that 1996, a Federal law required Attorney General to provide Con-gress with an independent review of theMany crime prevention programs don t. Most programs have not yetbeen evaluated with enough scientificevidence to draw conclusions. Enoughevidence is available, however, to createprovisional lists of what works, whatdoesn t, and what s Promising .
linquency and criminal behavior.”1 After an external, peer-reviewed competi-tion, the National Institute of Justice se-lected the proposal of a group from the University of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice to per-form the review. The review defined “crime prevention” broadly as any practice shown to result in
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