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:xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Adolescent development and legal policy
Subject:Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Prevention.
Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
Crime prevention -- United States.
Crime prevention.
Juvenile delinquency -- Prevention.
Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5782953
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Other authors / contributors:Zimring, Franklin E.
ISBN:0226307190 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index.
Table of 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 Allocating Crime-Prevention Resources
  • Chapter 7. Politics, Government, and Prevention
  • Chapter 8. Programming in the Modern Juvenile Court
  • References
  • Index