Changing lives : delinquency prevention as crime-control policy /

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Author / Creator:Greenwood, Peter W.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Adolescent development and legal policy
Adolescent development and legal policy.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186907
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ISBN:9780226307237
0226307239
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9781281956989
9780226307190
0226307190
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index.
English.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Greenwood, Peter W. Changing lives. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 0226307190 9780226307190