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Prevention and Intervention Programs for Juvenile OffendersVOL. 18 / NO. 2 / FALL 2008 185 Prevention and Inter vention Programs for Juvenile OffendersPeter GreenwoodSummaryOver the past decade researchers have identified Intervention strategies and program models that reduce delinquency and promote pro-social development. Preventing delinquency, says Peter Greenwood, not only saves young lives from being wasted, but also prevents the onset of adult criminal careers and thus reduces the burden of crime on its victims and on society. It costs states billions of dollars a year to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate, and treat Juvenile offend-ers. Investing in successful delinquency- Prevention Programs can save taxpayers seven to ten dollars for every dollar invested, primarily in the form of reduced spending on to Greenwood, researchers have identified a dozen proven delinquency- Prevention Programs .
the form of reduced spending on prisons.2 The prospect of reaping such savings by pre-venting delinquency is a new one. During the early 1990s, when crime rates had soared to historic levels, it was unclear how to go about preventing or stopping delinquency. Many of the most popular delinquency-prevention programs of that time, such as DARE,
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