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Diverting children from a life of crime : measuring costs and benefits / Peter W. Greenwood ... [et al.].

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  1. Diverting children from a life of crime : measuring costs and benefits / Peter W. Greenwood ... [et al.].
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  1. Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Greenwood, Peter W.
  2. Rand Corporation
  3. University of California, Berkeley
  4. James Irvine Foundation
Description
  1. xvii, 69 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. Diverting Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to rigorously compare the costs and effectiveness of various early-intervention approaches with each other and with incarceration. The author examines four such programs: home visits by child care professionals to provide guidance in infant and child care; parent training and therapy for families with primary-school-age children who have shown aggressive behavior; cash and other incentives to induce disadvantaged high school students to graduate; and monitoring and supervision of high-school-age youth who have already exhibited delinquent behavior. The authors assess the cost-effectiveness of each program and find that graduation incentives might reduce crime by 15% and that other interventions could reduce crime by smaller but significant amounts.
Subject
  1. Evaluation research (Social action programs)
  2. Juvenile delinquency > United States > Prevention > Evaluation
  3. Crime prevention > United States > Evaluation
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction. 2. Opportunities for intervention in development. Early-childhood interventions for children at risk -- Interventions for families with children acting out -- School-based interventions -- Interventions for troublesome youths early in delinquency. 3. Estimating direct costs and benefits of alternative approaches. Types of early intervention: costs and potential -- Population treated and crime commited -- Program cost -- Effectiveness at reducing crime -- Comparing costs, benefits, and cost effectiveness -- Comparison of early intervention with incarceration -- Sensitivity to parameter assumptions -- Final observations. 4. Conclusions and policy implications.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "MR-699-UCB/RC/IF."
  2. "Prepared for the University of California at Berkeley and the James Irvine Foundation."
  3. "Criminal Justice."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-69)
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