Changing lives: delinquency prevention as crime-control policy
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Main Author: Greenwood, Peter W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2006
Series:Adolescent development and legal policy
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index
Delinquency prevention as crime control -- The evolution of an idea -- Strategies for measuring program impact -- What works -- What doesn't work -- The uses and limits of cost effectiveness in allocating crime-prevention resources -- Politics, government, and prevention -- Programming in the modern juvenile court
Historically, it has been historically difficult to measure the impact of policies and programs designed to address juvenile crime. The most commonly used strategies for combating juvenile delinquency have primarily relied on intuition and fads. However, the promising research documented in Changing Lives presents methods that can directly remedy these deficiencies in our juvenile justice system. Peter W. Greenwood demonstrates here that as crime rates have fallen, researchers have identified more connections between specific risk factors and criminal behavior. At the same time, program develo
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 224 p.)
ISBN:0226307239
9780226307237

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