Sentences with phrase «reduce subsequent arrests»

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A fifteen - year follow - up of the Prenatal / Early Infancy Project in Elmira, New York, showed that the nurse home visits significantly reduced child abuse and neglect in participating families, as well as arrest rates for the children and mothers.35 The women who received the program also spent much less time on welfare; those who were poor and unmarried had significantly fewer subsequent births.

A subgroup analysis of high risk women who were unmarried and from low SES households (40 %) showed that home visits reduced the number of subsequent births (mean difference [MD] 0.5, p = 0.02), months that women received welfare (MD 29.9, p = 0.005), reports of behavioural impairment due to substance abuse (incidence 0.41 v 0.73, p = 0.005), records of arrests (incidence 0.16 v 0.90, p < 0.001), convictions (incidence 0.13 v 0.69, p < 0.001), and verified reports of child abuse and neglect involving the mother as perpetrator (incidence 0.11 v 0.53, p < 0.01).

Interventions that could reduce the risk of subsequent arrest and time spent in institutions are a valuable contribution to adolescents, their families, and society as a whole.