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050 00 $aHV9104$b.G685 2006
100 1 $aGreenwood, Peter W.
245 10 $aChanging lives :$bdelinquency prevention as crime-control policy /$cPeter W. Greenwood ; foreword by Franklin E. Zimring.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2006.
300 $axii, 224 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aAdolescent development and legal policy
520 1 $a"One of the most astonishing aspects of juvenile crime is how little is known about the impact of the policies and programs put in place to fight it. As a result of this almost complete absence of evaluation, the most commonly used strategies and programs for combating juvenile delinquency problems primarily rely on intuition and fads. Fortunately, as a result of the promising new research documented in Changing Lives, these deficiencies in our juvenile justice system might quickly be remedied." "Peter W. Greenwood here demonstrates that as crime rates have fallen, researchers have identified more connections between specific risk factors and criminal behavior, while program developers have discovered a wide array of innovative interventions. The result of all this activity, he reveals, has been the revelation of a few prevention models that reduce crime much more cost-effectively than popular approaches such as tougher sentencing, D.A.R.E., boot camps, and "scared straight" programs. Changing Lives expertly presents the most promising of these prevention programs, their histories, the quality of evidence to support their effectiveness, the public policy programs involved in bringing them into wider use, and the potential for investments and developmental research to increase the range and quality of programs."--BOOK JACKET
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index.
505 5 $aDelinquency 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.
650 0 $aJuvenile delinquency$zUnited States$xPrevention.
650 0 $aJuvenile delinquents$xRehabilitation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCrime prevention$zUnited States.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011954.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005011954-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005011954-d.html
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