Changing lives : delinquency prevention as crime-control policy / Peter W. Greenwood ; foreword by Franklin E. Zimring.

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Greenwood, Peter W

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Adolescent development and legal policyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226307237
0226307239
1281956988
9781281956989
9786611956981
6611956980

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Changing lives.DDC classification:

364.4 22

LOC classification:

HV9104 .G685 2006eb

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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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.

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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 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.

English.

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