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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 . Another twenty to thirty promising Programs are still being tested.
camps, job programs, and diversion from the juvenile justice system. None turned out to be consistently helpful. In 1994 a systematic review, by a special panel of the National Research Council, of rigorous evaluations of these strategies concluded that none could be described as effective.8 Estimating the effects of interventions to pre-
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