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Effects of Multimodal Police and Community Development Interventions on Violent Crime in a Target Area of Youngstown, Ohio

Simon, Jason E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1577807036428137

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2019, Master of Science in Criminal Justice, Youngstown State University, Department of Criminal Justice and Consumer Sciences.
This research addresses the results of multimodal interventions within a target area on the south side of the city of Youngstown, OH. The Youngstown Police Department (YPD), Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC), and Youngstown State University (YSU) commenced this strategy due to the disproportionally high rate of violent crime on the city’s south side compared with national averages and the city as a whole, in addition to high rates of poverty, urban decay, unemployment, and low rates of formal education. The hypothesis is that intervention reduces specified UCR Part 1 violent crimes. Crime data was analyzed by block group (target area N = 7; control area N = 7) over thirty-six months. Independent and paired samples t-tests on the limited set of data show the results of intervention to be effective but not statistically significant. Likewise, an innovative crime reduction calculator developed for criminal justice practitioners also showed the interventions to be strongly successful for crime reduction in the target area compared to the control, with overall violent crime being reduced by 29.1%, robberies by 53.6%, and aggravated assaults by 4.0%.
John Hazy, PhD (Advisor)
Gordon Frissora, PhD (Committee Member)
John Bralich, MA (Committee Member)
95 p.
Criminology; Operations Research; Public Policy
CBCR; CPTED; hot spot policing; violent crime reduction; criminal justice; collective efficacy; blight remediation; UCR Part I; intervention; multimodal intervention

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  • Simon, J. E. (2019). Effects of Multimodal Police and Community Development Interventions on Violent Crime in a Target Area of Youngstown, Ohio [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1577807036428137

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Simon, Jason. Effects of Multimodal Police and Community Development Interventions on Violent Crime in a Target Area of Youngstown, Ohio. 2019. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1577807036428137.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Simon, Jason. "Effects of Multimodal Police and Community Development Interventions on Violent Crime in a Target Area of Youngstown, Ohio." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1577807036428137

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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