Street Crime and Employment: How Can We Use One to Achieve the other? In the Greater Syracuse community, there has been an increase in street crime within the past decade. This program will look to take violators of drug and violent crime, and teach them job skills for future employment, and teaching them to be able to support themselves without the need to resort to crime.

Prelude to community need chart: Which street crimes happen the most? Cnyvitals.org specifies street crime into two categories: Part I and Part II crimes. Part I Crimes include: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, grand larceny, petit larceny, and arson Part II Crimes include: possession or sale of of marijuana or other controlled substances and possession or use of dangerous weapons.

Community Need Chart

Which Street Crimes Happen the Most? (Community Need Chart Part II) As you can see, Part I Crimes(Violent/property crimes) occur much More often than Part II Crimes(crimes against persons, public disorder crimes, or crimes involving drugs/alcohol.)

Community Need Chart Data This is the data that I received from

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Logical Approach Literature Review Emmanuel, Rahm, Preckwinkle, Toni. -Mayor of Chicago & Cook County president create “One Summer Chicago Program” in Findings indicate that violent crime drops almost 51% The Youth Project. -Chicago adolescent study called “The Youth Project” reports that estimated urban youths 43% less likely to commit violent crimes if they obtain a summer job. Sherman, Lawrence, W. et al. -Research finds that vocational training for young male criminals amongst most successful crime prevention programs available.

Literature Review References University of Chicago. “Crime Lab Study Finds Youth Employment Program Has Impact on Violent Crime Arrests.” Rahm Emmanuel, Toni Preckwinknle. Summer Web April 24, Ha, Yoona. “Study: Summer Job youth Programs Mitigate Violent Crime Among Disadvantaged Youth.” The Youth Project. 5/12/14. Web April 24, mitigate-violent-crime-among-disadvantaged-youth/ mitigate-violent-crime-among-disadvantaged-youth/ Sherman, Lawrence W.; Gottfredson, Denise C.; MacKenzie, Doris L.; Eck, John; Reuter, Peter; Bushway, Shawn D. “Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.”(1998.) Pages used:

Evaluation of Means Evaluation Question: Are violent offenders in program more likely to shy away/avoid committing violent crimes after they learn job and communication skills? Or will they recidivate? Evaluation design: binary

Data Analysis As we can see, based off the chi-square tests, there is no statistical significance in this program There is no correlation between being in the program and avoiding violent crime.

Data Analysis: More Variables! Although the findings were not statistically significant, I was curious to some other variables. Male or Female, as well as Whether the offender graduated high school were two variables I Tested. However, as you can see, there is no statistical significance to any of these variables.

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