Diverting Children from a Life of Crime
Measuring Costs and Benefits
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Word Count
17,250 words, Guess
Page Count
69 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8188031M
- ISBN-139780833023834
- ISBN-100833023837
- OCLC Control Number34745922
- OCLC Control Numberdivertingchildre0000unse
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96017911
- LibraryThing1365843
- Goodreads3836865
Classifications
- LCCHV7431 .D58 1996
Description
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.
First Sentence
Crime has been one of the top issues on the public agenda now for a quarter century.
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