Official Crime Rates of Participants in Trials of the Nurse-Family Partnership

The purpose of this continuation award is to provide for the analyses of official rates of arrests, convictions, and sentencing outcomes based on criminal background checks for mothers and children enrolled in three randomized controlled trials of the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP). The first NFP trial was conducted in Elmira, NY (N=400), with a sample of primarily low-income, white women. The second was conducted in Memphis, TN (N=1138) with a low-income sample that was 89% African American. The third was conducted in Denver, CO (N=735) with a low-income sample that was 46% Hispanic. Data on arrests, convictions, and sentencing will be analyzed to determine the extent to the program reduces official rates of crime in each of the trials of the NFP and to compare self-reports of crime with official rates. ca/ncf