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Changing Lives
Peter W. Greenwood
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Description for Changing Lives
Paperback. Historically, it has been 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. This book presents methods that can remedy these deficiencies in our juvenile justice system. Series: Adolescent Development and Legal Policy. Num Pages: 236 pages, 18 fugures, 13 tables. BIC Classification: JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
Historically, it has been 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 connections between specific risk factors and criminal behavior. At the same time, program developers have discovered a wide array of innovative interventions. The result of all this activity has been the ... Read more
Historically, it has been 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 connections between specific risk factors and criminal behavior. At the same time, program developers have discovered a wide array of innovative interventions. The result of all this activity has been the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Series
Adolescent Development and Legal Policy
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226307206
SKU
V9780226307206
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About Peter W. Greenwood
Peter W. Greenwood is former director of the RAND Corporation's Criminal Justice Program. He is coauthor of four previous books, including, most recently, Investing in Our Children.
Reviews for Changing Lives
"In Changing Lives, Peter Greenwood sifts through a massive and disparate body of literature on delinquency prevention programs to identify those programs that appear to have promise. In the course of this study, he never shies away from making candid assessments about why policymakers have continued to support ineffective programs." - Barry Krisberg, president, National Council on Crime and Delinquency" ... Read more