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NCJ Number: 251090 Find in a Library
Title: Mystery Shop Programs To Reduce Underage Alcohol Sales
Document: PDF
Author(s): Brad S. Krevor; Joel Grube; William DeJong
Date Published: August 2017
Annotation: This report presents findings on the features and effectiveness of “Mystery Shops,” which constitute a community-based intervention strategy for achieving licensees’ compliance with laws that prohibit alcohol sales to minors.
Abstract: Mystery Shops have the common feature of employing young, legal-age inspectors to attempt purchases of age-restricted products in order to provide feedback to licensees on the procedures used by their staffs to prevent their sale of age-restricted products. Unlike similar inspections by law enforcement personnel, Mystery Shops do not intend to collect evidence for imposing legal penalties for failure to check the ID of someone young enough to trigger a confirmation procedure for purchases of age-restricted projects; rather, the intent of Mystery Shops is to provide advisory feedback to particular licensees on how they should improve their age-confirmation procedures for sales of age-restricted products. This evaluation of Mystery Shops partnered with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission in conducting 13 monthly Mystery Shops in 12 communities in each state. In eight communities, licensees received on-the-spot feedback and follow-up reports; in another eight communities, licensees received reports on aggregate community-level performance and “Responsible Retailing” best practices; the remaining eight communities acted as non-intervention controls. Findings show that the community-wide feedback intervention had an equivalent effect to the individual licensee feedback in Texas; however, in Oregon, community-wide impact was apparently somewhat less effective than direct feedback to each licensee. Given the lack of statistical significance, however, this pattern is difficult to interpret. The report notes that the full-scale implementation of Mystery Shops would be significantly less costly than providing feedback to each licensee monitored. Additional research should be conducted to examine the viability of this option. 7 tables, 1 figure, and 37 references
Main Term(s): Juvenile status offenses
Index Term(s): Alcohol server responsibility; Alcoholic beverages; Effectiveness of crime prevention programs; Juvenile delinquency prevention programs; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP); OJJDP final report; Underage Drinking; Underage Drinking Programs
Grant Number: 2012-AH-FX-4004
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Washington, DC 20531
RRF Field Services, LLC
Waltham, MA 02451
Sale Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
US Dept of Justice
810 Seventh Street NW
Washington, DC 20531
United States of America
Page Count: 19
Format: Document; Document (Online)
Type: Program/Project Description; Program/Project Evaluation; Report (Grant Sponsored); Report (Study/Research); Research (Applied/Empirical); Youth-Oriented Material
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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