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One of the most astonishing aspects of juvenile crime is how little is known about the impact of the policies and programs put in place to fight it. The most commonly used strategies and programs for combating juvenile delinquency problems primarily rely on intuition and fads. Fortunately, as a result of the promising new research documented in Changing Lives, these deficiencies in our juvenile justice system might quickly be remedied.Peter W. Greenwood here demonstrates here that as crimes rates have fallen, researchers have identified more connections between specific risk factors and criminal behavior, while program developers have discovered a wide array of innovative interventions. The result of all this activity, he reveals, has been the revelation of a few prevention models that reduce crime much more cost-effectively than popular approaches such as tougher sentencing, D.A.R.E., boot camps, and "scared straight" programs. Changing Lives expertly presents the most promising of these prevention programs, their histories, the quality of evidence to support their effectiveness, the public policy programs involved in bringing them into wider use, and the potential for investments and developmental research to increase the range and quality of programs.

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9780226307190 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 2005, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: One of the most astonishing aspects of juvenile crime is how little is known about the impact of the policies and programs put in place to fight it.

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9780226307206, titled "Changing Lives: Delinquency Prevention As Crime-Control Policy" | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2007, cover price $18.00

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Product Description: Examines four approaches to intervening early in the lives of children at risk of eventual trouble with the law.

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9780833023834 | Rand Corp, June 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examines four approaches to intervening early in the lives of children at risk of eventual trouble with the law.

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Product Description: 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?
By Criminal Justice Program (other contributor), Peter W. Greenwood (editor), James Irvine Foundation (corporate author) and Berkeley University of California (corporate author)

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9780833026231 | Revised edition (Rand Corp, June 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In combating crime in America, little attention has been paid to keeping children from becoming criminals.

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Product Description: The authors report on the benefits and costs of California's new mandatorysentencing law, which provides for progressively longer sentences with an increasing number of prior convictions for serious felonies.
By Peter W. Greenwood (editor)

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9780833015976 | Rand Corp, January 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The authors report on the benefits and costs of California's new mandatorysentencing law, which provides for progressively longer sentences with an increasing number of prior convictions for serious felonies.

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