This paper describes Rainier Beach: A Beautiful Safe Place for Youth (ABSPY), a community-led, place-based, data-driven initiative to improve community safety and reduce crime involving young people at hot spots in Seattle, Washington. The ABSPY model puts crime prevention into the hands of the community, compared to traditional problem-solving approaches that may involve community stakeholders but are led by the police. We evaluated the initiative using a quasi-experimental research design comparing the five hot spots in the Rainier Beach neighborhood, where ABSPY was implemented, to five similarly situated hot spots elsewhere in the city. We used 9 years of police calls for service and offense reports, from 2011 to 2019, to assess ABSPY's effects on crime and a five-wave community survey conducted pre- and 4 years post-implementation to examine community perceptions. Although there were no significant effects on calls for service or crime, ABSPY significantly improved community members’ perceptions of serious crime and the police in the short and medium term.

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以问题为导向的社区组织建设“美丽安全的青少年家园”：准实验评价

本文介绍了雷尼尔海滩：青少年的美丽安全之地(ABSPY)，这是一项由社区主导、基于地点、数据驱动的倡议，旨在改善社区安全并减少华盛顿州西雅图热点地区涉及青少年的犯罪。与可能涉及社区利益相关者但由警察主导的传统问题解决方法相比，ABSPY 模式将预防犯罪交到社区手中。我们使用准实验研究设计评估了该举措，将实施 ABSPY 的雷尼尔海滩附近的五个热点与城市其他地方的五个类似热点进行了比较。我们利用 2011 年至 2019 年 9 年的警方服务电话和犯罪报告来评估 ABSPY 对犯罪的影响，并在实施前和实施后 4 年进行了五波社区调查，以考察社区的看法。尽管对服务或犯罪的呼吁没有显着影响，但 ABSPY 在中短期内显着改善了社区成员对严重犯罪和警察的看法。