Changing lives :: delinquency prevention as crime-control policy /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Greenwood, Peter W.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Schriftenreihe:Adolescent development and legal policy.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
ISBN:9780226307237
0226307239
1281956988
9781281956989
9786611956981
6611956980

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