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5. Building a “Beautiful Safe Place for Youth”: The Story of an Effective Community-Research-Practice Partnership in Rainier Beach, Seattle

Authors : Charlotte Gill, Claudia Gross Shader

Published in: Innovations in Community-Based Crime Prevention

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Translational criminology—the practice and process of bringing research evidence into strategies and decision-making in the criminal justice field—is growing in importance. However, there remain significant barriers to the development and sustainability of evidence-based policy and practice. In the United States, federal funding initiatives like the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation (BCJI) program have provided the impetus to further translational criminology efforts by promoting sustainable, data-driven partnerships between researchers, police and local government agencies, community organizations, and residents. In this chapter, we describe the factors needed to develop a successful partnership through a case study of the Seattle, WA BCJI program, Rainier Beach: A Beautiful Safe Place for Youth (ABSPY). We begin with a discussion of the literature on translational criminology, including barriers to and facilitators of successful translation. We then describe the history, characteristics, and key stakeholders of ABSPY and how we built an approach that reflects best practices in researcher-practitioner partnerships. We conclude with lessons learned and recommendations for sustaining similar efforts in collaborations between communities, local governments, and academics.

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Footnotes
1
https://​www.​bja.​gov/​ProgramDetails.​aspx?​Program_​ID=​70#horizontalTab1 (accessed May 27, 2020). Formerly called the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation program. The authors of this chapter are, respectively, the research partner and City of Seattle Office of City Auditor’s research liaison for the Seattle BCJI program and members of the ABSPY Core Team.
 
3
Davies et al. (2008) argue that the term “knowledge translation” suffers from the same problems, but we continue to use the term “translational criminology” in this chapter as it is well-recognized in the field.
 
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https://​www.​policeforum.​org (accessed May 27, 2020).
 
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https://​www.​theiacp.​org (accessed May 27, 2020).
 
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The development, design, and goals of ABSPY are described in more detail in Gill et al. (2016).
 
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https://​www.​cadca.​org (accessed May 27, 2020).
 
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The early history of Seattle’s partnership with the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy is documented in Gross Shader (2011).
 
21
https://​www.​pbis.​org (accessed May 27, 2020).
 
22
https://​www.​sustaintool.​org (accessed May 27, 2020).
 
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Metadata
Title
Building a “Beautiful Safe Place for Youth”: The Story of an Effective Community-Research-Practice Partnership in Rainier Beach, Seattle
Authors
Charlotte Gill
Claudia Gross Shader
Copyright Year
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43635-3_5

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