TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenwood,Peter W.
TI  - Changing lives: delinquency prevention as crime-control policy 
T2  - Adolescent development and legal policy
SN  - 9780226307237 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HV9104 .G685  2006eb
U1  - 364.4 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Juvenile delinquency
KW  - United States
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Juvenile delinquents
KW  - Rehabilitation
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - Délinquance juvénile
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Prévention
KW  - Jeunes délinquants
KW  - Rééducation
KW  - Criminalité
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - დანაშაულის პრევენცია აშშ
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index; 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
N2  - 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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