%0 Journal Article %J European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. Special Issue on: Compassionate Criminology: The Legacy of Josine Junger-Tas %D 2013 %T Transforming prevention systems in the United States and the Netherlands using Communities That Care %A Steketee, Majone %A Oesterle, Sabrina %A Jonkman, Harrie %A Hawkins, J D %A Haggerty, Kevin P %A Aussems, Claire %X

Josine Junger-Tas introduced the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system to the Netherlands as a promising approach to address the growing youth violence and delinquency. Using data from a randomized trial of CTC in the United States and a quasi-experimental study of CTC in the Netherlands, this article describes the results of a comparison of the implementation of CTC in 12 U.S. communities and 5 Dutch neighborhoods. CTC communities in both countries achieved higher stages of a science-based approach to prevention than control communities, but full implementation of CTC in the Netherlands was hampered by the very small list of prevention programs tested and found effective in the Dutch context.

%B European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. Special Issue on: Compassionate Criminology: The Legacy of Josine Junger-Tas %V 19 %P 99-116 %8 2013 Jun 1 %G eng %N 2 %R 10.1007/s10610-012-9194-y %0 Journal Article %J J Drug Issues %D 2012 %T A cross-national comparison of risk and protective factors for adolescent drug use and delinquency in the United States and the Netherlands %A Oesterle, Sabrina %A Hawkins, J D %A Steketee, Majone %A Jonkman, Harrie %A Brown, Eric C %A Moll, Marit %A Haggerty, Kevin P %X

The present study compared associations between risk and protective factors and adolescent drug use and delinquency in the Netherlands and the United States. Data were collected from students between the ages of 12 and 17 using the same school-administered survey instrument in both countries. Levels of exposure to risk and protective factors were generally similar in both countries. The same risk and protective factors shown to be associated with U.S. adolescents' drug use and delinquency were related significantly to Dutch youth's drug use and delinquency. One important exception was that Dutch students perceived their parents' attitudes to be more favorable toward alcohol use; these attitudes also were more predictive of adolescents' regular drinking in the Netherlands compared to the United States. The findings indicate that the risk and protective factors measured in this study can be important targets for prevention of health-compromising behaviors among young people in the Netherlands and the United States.

%B J Drug Issues %V 42 %P 337-357 %8 2012 Oct %G eng %N 4 %R 10.1177/0022042612461769