“Morrel-Samuels M., Bacallao, M. Brown S. Bower M., & Zimmerman M. (2016). Community Engagement in Youth Violence Prevention: Crafting Methods to Context. J Prim Prev 37:189-207”.

The article looked at a program on preventing youth violence with the focus was on high-risk community. Such a move can only be achieved via the implementation as well as evaluation of evidence-based strategies of prevention. It also explored the community engagement aspect operated by three community centers operating in different contexts. Although previous studies have offered support to the theories offering support to the involvement of the community in the prevention of youth violence, less attention has been paid to the challenges of implementing of attaining as well as sustaining participation. The largest setback for a research on community-based intervention is lack of trust. The study further highlights the need for transparency among the researchers in ensuring the success of these programs. The study mainly targeted the youths and utilized numerous partners within the community to ensure they participate in the implementation. These programs had an agenda of targeting the students’ individual needs. The article also identified the need of ensuring positive development of the youths. There was also the assessment of the readiness of the community to enhance transparency. A similar study done by WHO (2015) looked at the strategies of preventing violence among youths. It tried to identify the reasons why it is important to come up with these strategies. According to this article, youth violence is a vice that can be prevented if the right strategies are put in place. Numerous programs have been put in place to ensure a reduction in youth-related crimes. Youth violence can also be addressed through an evidence informed approach. The involvement of WHO in the prevention of youth violence is a representation of an essential stake that present in the health sector in ensuring the prevention of youth violence.

“ Beato, C and Silveira, A M. (2014). Effectiveness and Evaluation of Crime Prevention Programs in Minas Gerais. Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 3(1): 20, pp. 1-18, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/sta.dr”

The aim of this article was to ensure the analysis of the previous research evaluating the efficacy of policies of preventing crime adopted by Minas Gerais Government in Brazil. More emphasis was placed on studies that ensured the evaluation of outcomes compared to the studies that dealt with processed of coming up with as well as implementing projects and programs. The study employed Maryland Scale that ensured the categorization of research as well as the evaluation as per the methodological weaknesses and strength in five levels. According to the article, crime can be kept low through the use of both social policy as well as programs of preventing crime. The study found out that the only option of ensuring the reduction of crime is through coming up with management mechanism for instance policy integration in various institutional affiliations developed in various projects for instance, integration and management of public security (IGESP) and Stay Alive (Fica Vivo). The main differences that emerge between the US and Brazil when it comes to the action by the government in the security area is that Brazil’s problem urgency force policy-makers to ensure the adoption of the various strategies at different intervention levels. Unlike in US, Brazil’s preference is broader policies instead of projects and programs and this offers the explanation of immense difficulties in conducting outcomes evaluations and determines benefits and costs. The evaluations of numerous programs of preventing crime dearth distinguish the South America from the US. The documented experience as well as the academic output centered on the programs of preventing crimes in the US as well as other developed countries outnumbers the ones carried out in Brazil as well as other developing countries.

References

“Beato, C and Silveira, A M. (2014). Effectiveness and Evaluation of Crime Prevention Programs in Minas Gerais. Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 3(1): 20, pp. 1-18, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/sta.dr”

“Morrel-Samuels M., Bacallao, M. Brown S. Bower M., & Zimmerman M. (2016). Community Engagement in Youth Violence Prevention: Crafting Methods to Context. J Prim Prev 37:189-207”.

WHO. (2015). Preventing youth violence: an overview of the evidence.