Format:
Online-Ressource (238 p.)
ISBN:
9780226307190
Series Statement:
Adolescent Development and Legal Policy
Content:
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. 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 here that as crimes rates have fallen, researchers have identified more connections between specific risk factors and crimi
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part 1 The Nature and Effectiveness of Crime Prevention; Chapter 1 Delinquency Prevention as Crime Control; Chapter 2 The Evolution of an Idea; Chapter 3 Strategies for Measuring Program Impact; Chapter 4 What Works; Chapter 5 What Doesn't Work; Part 2 Prevention and Policy; Chapter 6 The Uses and Limits of Cost Effectiveness in AllocatingCrime-Prevention Resources; Chapter 7 Politics, Government, and Prevention; Chapter 8 Programming in the Modern Juvenile Court; References; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226307237
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226307190
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Changing Lives : Delinquency Prevention as Crime-Control Policy
Language:
English
Keywords:
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