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| Title | Evidence Rating | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Hot Spots Policing (Lowell, Mass.) |  | A crime-reduction policing strategy that uses a disorder policing approach to concentrate on improving physical and social order in high-crime locations in Lowell, Mass. |
| Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) | | An automated ballistics imaging and analysis system that populates a computerized database of digital ballistic images of bullets and casings from crime guns; the system assists forensic experts in making identifications for investigations and trials. |
| Jackson County (Ore.) Community Family Court | | A family drug court program for parents with admitted substance abuse allegations whose children are wards of the State of Oregon and are in the custody of the Department of Human Services. |
| Minneapolis (Minn.) Preventive Patrol | | A program that increased police presence in crime “hot spots” to reduce criminal activity in Minneapolis, Minn. |
| Multisystemic Therapy (MST) |  | A family and community-based treatment program for adolescent offenders who have exhibited serious antisocial, problem, and delinquent behaviors. |
| Multisystemic Therapy–Substance Abuse | | A version of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) targeted to adolescents with substance abuse and dependency issues. |
| Operation Ceasefire (Boston, Mass.) | | A problem-solving police strategy that seeks to reduce gang violence, illegal gun possession, and gun violence in communities in Boston, Mass. |
| Operation Cul-de-Sac | | Program that supports the installation of permanent traffic barriers in high-crime neighborhoods to reduce gang drive-by shootings, assaults, and homicides. |
| Operation Peacekeeper | | A community and problem-oriented policing program based in Stockton, Calif., that aims to reduce gang involvement and violence among urban youth aged 10 to 18. |
| Parent–Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) | | Teaches parents new interaction and discipline skills to reduce child problem behaviors and parental physical child abuse by improving relationships and responses to difficult behavior. |
| Prolonged Exposure Therapy | | A cognitive–behavioral treatment program for individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. |
| Safe Dates | | A school-based prevention program for middle and high school students designed to stop or prevent the initiation of dating violence victimization and perpetration. |
| Street Lighting in Dudley (England) | | A program to reduce the prevalence and incidence of crime by improving street lighting in residential areas. |
| 4th R Curriculum |  | An interactive classroom curriculum that aims to reduce physical dating violence in high school students by using lessons on healthy relationships, sexual health, and substance use. |
| Alternatives for Families: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | | A comprehensive approach for children and their parents to deal with the effects of child physical abuse, exposure to related abuse, child or family aggression, and hostile family environments by teaching skills to enhance self-control, promote positive family relations, and reduce violent behavior. |
| Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance Abuse |  | A family-based treatment approach for substance- and alcohol-abusing couples and their families. Behavioral Couples Therapy for Substance Abuse (BCT) uses individual, group, and couples therapy sessions to provide patients with communication and coping skills and positive relationship behaviors to facilitate their abstinence from drugs and alcohol. |
| Bringing in the Bystander | | A program that aims to increase bystander awareness of sexual and intimate partner violence and expand an individual’s sense of responsibility to proactively help prevent and intervene in instances of sexual and intimate partner violence. |
| Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Los Angeles (Calif.) | | A nonprofit organization created by neighborhood property owners or merchants to provide services, activities, and programs to promote local improvements and public safety. |
| CCTV in Five English Cities | | Closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras were installed in five English town and city centers to reduce crime. |
| CCTV in Philadelphia (Pa.) | | A program to install closed-circuit television cameras at different locations in the city of Philadelphia. |
| CCTV in Southwark, England | | A program to install closed circuit television cameras in town centers to reduce crime and fear of crime. |
| CeaseFire (Chicago, Ill.) | | A violence prevention program that uses an evidence-based public health approach to reduce shootings and killings by using highly trained street violence interrupters and outreach workers, public education campaigns, and community mobilization. |
| Charlotte–Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Department Domestic Violence Unit | | A specialized police unit to prevent recidivism among domestic violence offenders and assist victims of domestic violence. |
| Child–Parent Psychotherapy | | A dyadic, relationship-based treatment for parents and young children that aims to help restore normal developmental functioning in the wake of violence and trauma. |
| Community Advocacy Project | | A 10-week community- and strengths-based advocacy intervention for women with abusive partners. Its goals are to improve the women's access to community resources, increase their social support, and enhance their safety. |
| Compstat (Fort Worth, Texas) | | A policing management program that depends on the cooperation of the entire agency to create a “focused” approach to reduce crime and disorder in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| Dallas (Texas) Anti-Gang Initiative | | A policing initiative that used intensive patrol and enforcement of curfew/truancy ordinances to reduce gang-related activity and violence among juveniles in Dallas, Texas. |
| Empowerment Training for Abused Pregnant Chinese Women | | An empowerment training program designed to raise self-esteem, improve health, and reduce intimate partner violence among pregnant Chinese women who have been abused. |
| Healthy Families America | | A home visitation program targeting expecting and new parents, with children up to age 5, who are at risk of abusing or neglecting their children. It is designed to promote healthy families and children through a variety of services, including child development, access to health care, and parent education. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) Directed Patrol | | A policing program that uses a proactive directed patrol strategy to reduce firearms violence in Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) Violence Reduction Partnership (IVRP) | | A policing program that targeted high-risk chronic offenders in order to reduce gun violence in Indianapolis, Ind. |
| Infant–Parent Psychotherapy | | A dyadic, relationship-based treatment for parents and infants that is designed to improve the parent–child relationship, by examining the insecurities that have developed in parents from negative experiences during their own childhoods. |
| Kansas City (Mo.) Police Department Street Narcotics Unit | | A special unit to conduct police raids of crack houses in order to reduce crack-related crime and improve public order in Kansas City, Mo. |
| Multisystemic Therapy for Child Abuse and Neglect (MST–CAN) | | Targets youth and family functioning and parental behavior to reduce child physical abuse, neglect, and out-of-home placement while intervening in the home environment. |
| Multisystemic Therapy for Youth With Problem Sexual Behaviors (MST–PSB) | | An adaptation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) aimed at adolescents who have committed sexual offenses and demonstrated other problem behaviors. |
| Nashville (Tenn.) Drug Market Intervention | | A policing program that used community mobilization, strategic planning, and pulling levers notifications to reduce drug dealing in a high-crime area in Nashville, Tenn. |
| Operation Ceasefire: Hollenbeck Initiative | | A policing initiative that targeted specific dangerous gangs using aggressive enforcement to reduce gun violence in the Hollenbeck area of Los Angeles, Calif. |
| Operation Safe Streets (Philadelphia, Pa.) | | A problem-oriented policing program targeted at high-crime areas and drug corners to prevent violent and drug-related crime. |
| Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP) | | A school-based program designed to provide conflict-resolution strategies and skills to prevent violence to students in middle and junior high schools. |
| Safer Cities Initiative | | A place-based policing intervention that targeted crime and disorder associated with homeless encampments in Los Angeles, Calif. |
| Secured by Design, West Yorkshire (England) | | A program that encourages housing developers to design out crime at the planning stage or concept stage. |
| Sexual Abuse: Family Education and Treatment Program (SAFE–T) | | A specialized, community-based program that provides sexual abuse–specific assessment, treatment, consultation, and long-term support to adolescent sexual offenders and their families. |
| Targeted Gun Law Messaging | | A mail campaign intended to deter illegal firearm transactions in Los Angeles, Calif. using a letter outlining the regulations and laws surrounding firearm ownership. |
| The Abuse Assessment (The Abuse Screen) | | An abuse assessment screening tool for medical staff to aid in the detection and referral of abuse in pregnant women. |
| Hot Spots Policing (Jacksonville, Fla.) |  | A geographically focused policing strategy intended to reduce violent crime in high-crime areas of Jacksonville, Fla., using problem-oriented policing and directed patrol techniques. |
| Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) | | A collaborative Federal effort that concentrated on improving criminal justice, employment, education, health, and housing outcomes of adult and juvenile offenders upon their release from incarceration. |
| Weed and Seed (Miami, Fla.) | | A community-based approach to reducing and preventing crime while revitalizing the community. |
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