Changing Lives Delinquency Prevention As Crime-Control Policy

Name: Changing Lives Delinquency Prevention As Crime-Control Policy
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ISBN: 9780226307206

ISBN-10: 0226307204

ISBN-13: 9780226307206

Edition: 2005

Authors: Peter W. Greenwood, Franklin E. Zimring

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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 inChanging Livespresents 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 developers have discovered a wide array of innovative interventions. The result of all this activity, he…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Acknowledgments



The Nature and Effectiveness of Crime Prevention



Delinquency Prevention as Crime Control



The Evolution of an Idea



Strategies for Measuring Program Impact



What Works



What Doesn't Work



Prevention and Policy



The Uses and Limits of Cost Effectiveness in Allocating Crime-Prevention Resources



Politics, Government, and Prevention



Programming in the Modern Juvenile Court References Index