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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Drug Prevention Programs

Drug Prevention Programs

Hammond, Augustine

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3639021304
ISBN13: 9783639021301
Publisher: Blues Kids Of Amer
Published: May 16 2008
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Adolescents have been observed to have negative attitudes toward police officers, yet police officers are increasingly being used as resource persons and instructors in school-based prevention programs in the US. This has the likelihood of adversely affecting the effective-ness of these programs but adolescents' attitudes toward program and/or police instructors have not been adequately examined. This study uses multi-level structural equation modeling to explore attitudes toward police officers and instructors as well as the factors influencing the attitudes among middle and high school students in a nationwide longitudinal evaluation of a school-based substance abuse prevention program delivered by Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) officers. The findings suggest the students were generally impartial in their attitudes toward police officers but were fairly posi-tive in their attitudes toward police instructors. These attitudes de-clined over time and varied according to students' individual charac-teristics and contextual factors.

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