TY - JOUR
T1 - Can working collaboratively with police on community service promote positive youth development?
AU - Fine, Adam D.
AU - Padilla, Kathleen E.
AU - Tapp, Julie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Despite the Task Force on 21st Century Policing explicitly calling for police to engage youth in positive, non-enforcement contexts, studies have not systematically examined the impacts of such programs on positive youth development (PYD). These two studies examined the impact of a community-driven program that enables children to work collaboratively on community service projects with police (within a non-enforcement and non-surveillance context) on youths’ developmental assets. First, a pre/post evaluation was implemented with youth in six schools in California and New York City. Second, a randomized controlled trial was conducted in four schools in Compton. The program promoted youths’ Positive Values, Positive Identity, Empowerment, and Social Conscience. This program will not correct unjust policing, but through programs like this, police may begin acting as a fundamentally different type of resource for the children they should be serving and can promote PYD.
AB - Despite the Task Force on 21st Century Policing explicitly calling for police to engage youth in positive, non-enforcement contexts, studies have not systematically examined the impacts of such programs on positive youth development (PYD). These two studies examined the impact of a community-driven program that enables children to work collaboratively on community service projects with police (within a non-enforcement and non-surveillance context) on youths’ developmental assets. First, a pre/post evaluation was implemented with youth in six schools in California and New York City. Second, a randomized controlled trial was conducted in four schools in Compton. The program promoted youths’ Positive Values, Positive Identity, Empowerment, and Social Conscience. This program will not correct unjust policing, but through programs like this, police may begin acting as a fundamentally different type of resource for the children they should be serving and can promote PYD.
KW - Positive youth development
KW - developmental assets
KW - intervention
KW - law enforcement
KW - procedural justice
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U2 - 10.1080/15614263.2021.1959331
DO - 10.1080/15614263.2021.1959331
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117051615
SN - 1561-4263
VL - 22
SP - 1739
EP - 1759
JO - Police Practice and Research
JF - Police Practice and Research
IS - 7
ER -