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On another measure of antisocial behavior-arrest rates-programs,
especially those with an employment focus, were found to be effective, at
least in the short term. Participants in Youth Corps were less likely to
have been arrested than youths in the control group by the end of the
program. Similarly, participants in Job Corps and JOBSTART had fewer
arrests in the year following the program (JC1, JS2). Only two
programs-the Nurse Home Visitation Program and Job Corps-lowered arrest
rates among participants in the long term (NHV2, JC2). In addition,
children of participants in the Nurse Home Visitation Program had fewer
arrests than children of youths in the control group.
Several programs found no difference in long-term arrest rates, while
in one case, participants' arrest rates increased. For example,
participants in JTPA did not have significantly different arrest rates 21
and 36 months after having been assigned randomly to the program;
furthermore, young men without an arrest record at the time of assignment
experienced an almost 11 percentage point increase in arrests (JTPA).
Similarly, JOBSTART ceased to make a difference in arrest rates by the
time long-term follow-up studies were conducted (JS2). Job Corps was the
only program that reduced arrest rates in both the short term (one year
after beginning the program) and the long term (48 months after the
program ended) (JC1, JC2).
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