- Title
- Exploring community-based options for reducing youth crime
- Creator
- Edmunds, Kim; Wall, Laura; Brown, Scott; Searles, Andrew; Shakeshaft, Anthony P.; Doran, Christopher M.
- Relation
- NHMRC.APP1048069 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1048069
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 18, Issue 10, no. 5097
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105097
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- BackTrack is a multi-component, community-based intervention designed to build capacity amongst 14–17-year-old high risk young people. The aim of the current study seeks to explore community value and preferences for reducing youth crime and improving community safety using BackTrack in a rural setting in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The study design used discrete choice experiments (DCEs), designed in accordance with the 10-item checklist outlined by the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. The DCE was pilot tested on 43 participants to test feasibility and comprehension. A revised version of the survey was subsequently completed by 282 people over a 12-day period between 30 May 2016 and 10 June 2016, representing a survey response rate of 35%. Ninety per cent of respondents were residents of Armidale, the local rural town where BackTrack was implemented. The DCE generated results that consistently demonstrated a preference for social programs to address youth crime and community safety in the Armidale area. Respondents chose BackTrack over Greater Police Presence 75% of the time with an annual benefit of Australian dollars (AUD) 150 per household, equivalent to a community benefit of AUD 2.04 million. This study estimates a strong community preference for BackTrack relative to more policing (a community willing to pay equivalent to AUD 2.04 million) highlighting the clear value of including community preferences when evaluating community-based programs for high-risk young people.
- Subject
- youth crime; community; preference; intervention; economic
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1460798
- Identifier
- uon:46051
- Identifier
- ISSN:1661-7827
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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