The Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project in Chicago

with lower self-reported serious violence offenses (r = 0.274, p # 0.01). Total offenses are alsonegatively correlated (i.e., are lower) with the youth’s increased satisfaction with the community,but at only 0.05 level of statistical significance. However, at Time III the youth’s satisfactionwith the community is no longer significantly correlated with the offense variables, at least usingself-report data.The youth’s fear of gang-related problems in the neighborhood, at Time I, is highlycorrelated with decreases in the youth’s self-reported drug-selling offenses (r = 0.448, p # 0.01),total arrests (r = 0.380, p # 0.01), and especially, total violence arrests (r = 0.509, p # 0.001) andtotal serious violence arrests (r = 0.524, p # 0.001). Fear emerges also as a very powerfulvariable in the later analysis based on police arrest data. In related fashion, efforts by the youthto avoid neighborhood crime is highly correlated with low self-reported total offenses (r = -0.246, p # 0.01). But the youth’s perception of the presence of adults who use youth for illegalactivities at Time I is correlated with high rates of self-reported total violence offenses (r = -0.245, p # 0.01), total arrests (r = -0.0273, p # 0.01) and total drug offenses (r = -0.308, p #0.01).Two community-level police variables correlate especially with arrest variables. At TimeI, if the youth does not perceive the police patrolling in squad cars, he self-reports higher rates oftotal violence arrests (r = 0.235, p # 0.01) and even higher rates of total serious violence arrest(r = 0.299, p # 0.001). A perception of less police patrolling, and/or increased harassing ofyouth is associated with increased self-reported total offenses (p # 0.05) at Time III.Youth perceptions of probation officers addressing the gang problem are broadlycorrelated with self-reported offense and arrest variables, but in a manner which suggests a10.14