ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2022
Evaluation of Communities That Care-Effects on Municipal Youth Crime Rates in Victoria, Australia: 2010-2019.
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- Definitions of community-level approaches to address substance-related harms and lessons learned: A systematic overview of reviews.American journal of community psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Early Effects of Communities That Care on System Transformation: a Non-randomized Community Trial in Germany.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Design and Feasibility Trial of Interventions to Reduce Young Adult Alcohol Use with Communities That Care Coalitions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Effects of the Communities that Care (CTC) Prevention System on Youth Violence Outcomes in Two Violence-Impacted Denver Communities.American journal of criminal justice : AJCJ · 2026Article
- Profiling Vulnerability in Youth and Predicting Educational Attainment in Young Adulthood.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- From body shaping to character formation: international research progress and mechanisms of exercise training interventions for juvenile delinquency.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Adaptation of the Communities That Care Youth Survey for Use in Estonia: A Pilot Study.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- Australian Communities That Care (CTC) intervention: Benefit-cost analysis of a community-based youth alcohol prevention initiative.PloS one · 2024Article
- Child Maltreatment and Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Outcomes: An Exploration of Biopsychosocial Determinants and Implications for Prevention.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Review
- Effects of the Pelotas (Brazil) Peace Pact on violence and crime: a synthetic control analysis.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
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Abstract
Internationally, youth crime is a significant social problem. Violent youth crime has been rising over the past decade in the state of Victoria, Australia. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition training process designed to prevent youth crime. There has been limited evaluation outside the USA. Using a non-experimental design, this study employed official state crime statistics to evaluate the impact on crime as the five-phase CTC process was implemented between 2010 and 2019 across communities in Victoria. The standard five-phase CTC implementation cycle was supplemented with universal programs to reduce sales and supply of alcohol to underage youth (under 18 years). Growth models evaluated community trends in youth crime (all, person, property and deception and other), comparing communities that implemented CTC at phase 4 or greater with communities that had not implemented CTC. In accord with the hypotheses, the study found significant reductions in crimes associated with CTC over the period between 2010 and 2019. A 2% annual reduction in risk was observed for crimes against persons for all age groups (IRR = 0.98, 95% CI [0.96, 0.998]). A 5% annual reduction was observed for crimes of property and deception for adolescents aged between 10 and 17 years (IRR = 0.95, 95% CI [0.90, 0.99]). These findings support CTC as an intervention for preventing youth crime at a population level. Future studies should evaluate intervention mechanisms and economic benefits.
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