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Changing lives

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An edition of Changing Lives (2005)

Changing lives

delinquency prevention as crime-control policy

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"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

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English
Pages
224

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Cover of: Changing Lives
Changing Lives: Delinquency Prevention as Crime-Control Policy (Adolescent Development and Legal Policy)
April 15, 2007, University Of Chicago Press
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Cover of: Changing lives
Changing lives: delinquency prevention as crime-control policy
2006, University of Chicago Press
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Changing Lives: Delinquency Prevention as Crime-Control Policy (Adolescent Development and Legal Policy)
November 15, 2005, University Of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index.

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Chicago
Series
Adolescent development and legal policy

Classifications

Library of Congress
HV9104 .G685 2006, HV9104.G685 2006, HV9104 .G685 2006eb, HV9104 .G685 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 224 p. :
Number of pages
224

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15599950M
Internet Archive
changinglivesdel0000gree
ISBN 10
0226307190
LCCN
2005011954
OCLC/WorldCat
60245448
Library Thing
1708425

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