SBLE shows no statistically significant association with criminal justice contact, violence, substance-related, or weapon-related outcomes¶

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Evidence · 1 study · quant-synthesis r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The school-level meta-analysis found no statistically significant differences in criminal justice system contact, violence, substance-related outcomes, or weapon-related outcomes under SBLE. → Fisher 2022

Evidence¶

Fisher 2022¶

Fisher, B., & Petrosino, A. (2022). What a systematic review of 32 evaluations says about the impact of school-based law enforcement. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED621156

q2 · i? · quant-synthesis · r?

Null meta-analytic finding from the 27 school-level studies of SBLE. The analysis "did not find that SBLE was associated with any statistically signif - icant differences" for criminal justice system contact, violence, substance-related, or weapon-related outcomes; no effect size is printed, so equivalence was not tested.

"The analysis did not find that SBLE was associated with any statistically signif - icant differences in the levels of crim- inal justice system contact, violence, substance-related outcomes, or weapon-related outcomes."

Discussion¶

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