The Little Village Gang Violence Reduction Project in Chicago

from the low to medium or high, or from the medium to the high category, he was classified as afailure.We also focused on three categories of arrests: total arrests, serious violence arrests, andtotal violence arrests. The classification of levels for total arrests was: low = 1-2; medium = 3-7; high = 8 or more. The classification levels for serious violence arrests and total violencearrests was: low = 1; medium = 2; high = 3 or more.In a series of Logistic Regression analyses, the program sample did better, but notsignificantly better than the comparison sample. This could have been because there were fewercases in these analyses than in the GLM analysis. Nevertheless, the program sample had a 35%greater relative reduction than the comparison sample in total arrests; a 33% greater absolutereduction of arrests for serious violence than the comparison group, and a 3% greater absolutereduction of arrests for total violence – serious and less serious – than the comparison groupduring the program, compared to the pre-program, period. Again, when we focused our analysison the more serious type of offender, we found more program than comparison youth whoreduced their level of offending.11.21