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Title Diverting children from a life of crime : measuring costs and benefits / Peter W. Greenwood [and others] ; prepared for the University of California, Berkeley, and the James Irvine Foundation
Published Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 69 pages) : illustrations
Summary In combating crime in America, little attention has been paid to keeping children from becoming criminals. What benefit might be realized from such an approach, and at what cost? Working from limited data on program efficacy and on criminal careers, the authors of this report made rough estimates of the costs and benefits of four early interventions--prenatal home visits by child care professionals, followed by four years of day care; training for parents with young children who have shown aggressive behavior; incentives to induce disadvantaged high-school students to graduate; and monitoring and supervising young delinquents. All except the first appeared to be at least as cost-effective as a popular but very different approach to crime reduction--California's "three-strikes" law. The advantages of parent training and graduation incentives in particular are so large that some advantage is likely to be found even under assumptions differing substantially from those made here. This report updates information contained in MR-699-UCB/RC/IF, published in 1996
Notes "RAND Criminal Justice."
Research that originated in an invitation to make a presentation at a seminar held Oakland, Calif., May 19, 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-69)
Notes "MR-699-1-UCB/RC/IF"--Page 4 of cover
English
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Subject Crime prevention -- United States -- Evaluation
Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Prevention -- Evaluation
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime prevention -- Evaluation
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Juvenile delinquency -- Prevention -- Evaluation
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Greenwood, Peter, W
University of California, Berkeley.
James Irvine Foundation.
Criminal Justice Program (Rand Corporation)
LC no. 98167055
ISBN 0585353301
9780585353302
0833026232
9780833026231
9780833048486
0833048481