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Violent Crime Programs at a Glance

23% No Effects

59% Promising

18% Effective

Total Number of Programs: 159

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Violent Crime Practice Outcomes at a Glance

26% No Effects

48% Promising

26% Effective

Total Number of Practices: 24

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Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) / Randomized Field Experiment

Refers to an experimental research design in which participants are randomly assigned to a treatment or a control group. Most social scientists consider random assignment to lead to the highest level of confidence that observed effects are the result of the program and not other variables.

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Crime & Crime Prevention

Violent crime is generally categorized into four types of offenses which involve force or the threat of force: murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault.