Changing lives : delinquency prevention as crime-control policy /
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Author / Creator: | Greenwood, Peter W. |
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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 |
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