Deconstructing the pipeline: using efficacy, effectiveness, and cost-benefit data to reduce minority youth incarceration

New Dir Youth Dev. 2003 Fall:(99):91-120. doi: 10.1002/yd.56.

Abstract

Investing in effective prevention and early intervention programs will reduce human costs of victimization and also save tax dollars in the short and long terms.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Humans
  • Juvenile Delinquency / economics*
  • Juvenile Delinquency / prevention & control*
  • Prisons / economics*
  • Self Efficacy*