D.A.R.E. and Scientific Evidence (Symposium: Reexamination of Policy-Making Processes in Recent Legislations and Policies on Criminal Justice: Based on the Idea of Evidence-Based Policy)
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- Petrosino Anthony
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Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- D.A.R.E.と科学的なエビデンス (I 課題研究 最近の刑事政策関連立法・施策における政策形成過程の再検討-エビデンス・ベイスト・ポリシーの発想に基づいて)
- D.A.R.E. and scientific evidence: a 20 year history
- 20年間の歴史
- A 20 Year History
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Abstract
This paper presents a brisk history of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program, America's most popular school-based drug prevention strategy. After a brief description of the program, the paper outlines the history of D.A.R.E. from its beginnings in 1983 to the 21^<st> Century, with particular attention paid to research evidence relevant to D.A.R.E. The paper highlights the mid- to late-1990s, a period that saw D.A.R.E. remain resilient and even expand in light of negative research findings. Drawing on results from a study of D.A.R.E. and the uses of evaluation findings, the author offers five common themes to explain this irony. By the late 1990s, however, D.A.R.E. was seemingly in decline. Research-particularly in the form of large government reviews and best practice lists-played an influential role, and ultimately led to a meeting between D.A.R.E. leadership and evaluators to ascertain how the program could be improved. A new D.A.R.E. curriculum targeting a more age-appropriate group of students was introduced and is now being evaluated in a randomized experiment in the U.S. that includes over 100 schools.
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology
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Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology 30 (0), 72-88, 2005
Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282680764853760
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- NII Article ID
- 110006153673
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- NII Book ID
- AN00206207
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- ISSN
- 24241695
- 0386460X
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- NDL BIB ID
- 8774792
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- NDL
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed