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Scared Straight
Apr 1, 2026 ·
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Perhaps this would have made a good Halloween episode? Probably not. Anyway, this episode honors April Fool's day by examining a foolish endeavor: Scared Straight programs. We review the scientific...
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Perhaps this would have made a good Halloween episode? Probably not. Anyway, this episode honors April Fool's day by examining a foolish endeavor: Scared Straight programs. We review the scientific research and philosophy underlying the idea of Scared Straight. Unsurprisingly, this is an idea that is so bad that even the cops don't like it. So, why does it persist...?
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Links and References:
- https://portal.cops.usdoj.gov/resourcecenter/content.ashx/cops-p288-pub.pdf
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7783688/
- https://www.wested.org/resource/scared-straight/
- https://sites.bu.edu/daniellerousseau/2018/12/12/do-all-juvenile-prevention-programs-work/
- http://users.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/Petrosino_Annals_03.pdf
- https://methods.cochrane.org/equity/scared-straight
- https://www.prindleinstitute.org/2021/06/re-examining-scared-straight-programs/
- https://www.djj.state.fl.us/content/download/23879/file/scared-straight-(july-2018).pdf?version=2
- https://www.americanprogress.org/article/doing-what-doesnt-work/
- Petrosino, Anthony, Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, Meghan E. Hollis-Peel, Julia G. Lavenberg, and Alexis Stern. 2014. Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency. No. 12 of Crime Prevention Research Review. Washington, DC: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
- Petrosino A, Turpin-Petrosino C, Hollis-Peel ME, Lavenberg JG. 'Scared Straight' and other juvenile awareness programs for preventing juvenile delinquency. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2013, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD002796. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002796.pub2.
- https://www.college.police.uk/research/crime-reduction-toolkit/scared-straight
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