Exploration of a screening tool for predicting increased risk of young people in Minneapolis becoming victims of violent crime (ML #26)

Minn-LInK Report Brief—Special Topic No. 26, Fall 2015
Authors: Caines, C. A., Peterson, J., & Harrison, P. A.

The purpose of this study was to identify a set of indicators available from existing administrative databases that could be used to identify adolescents at elevated risk for being a victim of violent crime in order to direct early intervention resources to the young people who would most benefit from services. The study sought to identify the characteristics and background experiences that best distinguished victims from instead of and nonvictims of violent crime, and calculate various estimates of how well individual indicators or sets of indicators accurately identified victims.

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