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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.
strategies used by researchers to evaluate the programs. The second is inconsistency in the evaluations, which makes comparison nearly impossible. The first problem limiting progress in identi-fying successful program strategies is the weak designs found in most program evaluations. Only rarely do juvenile intervention programs
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