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Review: “Scared Straight” and other juvenile awareness programmes increase criminal behaviour

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    Petrosino A, Turpin-Petrosino C, Buehler J.“Scared straight” and other juvenile awareness programs for preventing juvenile delinquency.Cochrane Database Syst Rev2002;(2):CD002796 (latest version 27 Feb 2002).

    QUESTION: In children who have been, or are at risk of being, adjudicated or convicted by a juvenile court, do programmes using organised prison visits designed to deter criminal behaviour (eg, “Scared Straight” programme) reduce offending activity?

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    Studies were identified by handsearching 29 criminology or social science journals; searching 16 electronic databases (including the trial registers of the Cochrane Collaboration and the Campbell Collaboration); scanning references in relevant reviews, bibliographies, books, articles, and other documents; and contacting experts in the field.

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    Published or unpublished studies were selected if they were randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials, the intervention included a visit to prison for …

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    • For correspondence: Dr A Petrosino, Research Consultant, Chelmsford, MA, USA. anthony_petrosino{at}harvard.edu

    • Source of funding: Smith-Richardson Foundation.