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NCJ 200519
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Title:
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Evaluation of the Youth Curfew in Prince George's County, Maryland, Final Report
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Series:
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NIJ Research Report
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Author(s):
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Caterina Gouvis M.S.
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Corporate Author:
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The Urban Institute
United States
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Date Published:
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07/2000 |
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Page Count:
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34 |
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Sponsoring Agency:
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Grant Number:
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99-IJ-CX-0008 |
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Sale Source:
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The Urban Institute
2100 M Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037
United States
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
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Document:
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PDF |
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Agency Summary:
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Agency Summary |
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Publisher:
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http://www.urban.org |
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Type:
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Program/project evaluations |
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Language:
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English |
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Country:
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United States |
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Annotation:
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Prince George’s County, Maryland's youth curfew law is evaluated in this report from the Urban Institute. |
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Abstract:
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Policymakers sometimes actively sponsor restrictive and punitive measures limiting the rights of youth in response to juvenile crime. This report presents background information concerning Prince George’s County, Maryland's youth curfew law. Designed as a way to reduce youth victimization, youth curfew laws aim to protect youths, reduce crime, protect society, and reinforce parental authority by keeping unsupervised youths off the streets during times when the risk of crime is the greatest. Following a brief literature review highlighting youth curfew laws’ effects on reducing violent crimes, the authors detail Prince George’s County's curfew law which requires individuals younger than 17 to be off the streets and out of public areas from 10 P.M. to 5 A.M. on weeknights and from midnight to 5 A.M. on weekends. In order to assess the effectiveness of the youth curfew law, the authors analyzed incident reports for violent victimizations from the Prince George’s County Police Department. Autoregressive integrated moving average techniques and spatial analysis indicated little support for the hypothesis that the curfew reduced violent victimization of youth within curfew age, although victimization was reduced in older youths and young adults aged 22 to 25. A series of figures detailing Prince George’s County Police Districts and Beats and event clusters are also included. References |
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Main Term(s):
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Program evaluation ; Curfew |
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Index Term(s):
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Crime causes/ ; Violence ; Youthful offenders ; Youths ; Youth involvement in crime preventn ; Crime prevention planning ; Adolescent victims ; NIJ final report ; NIJ grant-related documents ; Maryland |
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Note:
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Dataset may be archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
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