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One of the most astonishing aspects of juvenile crime is how little is known about the impact of the policies and programs put in place to fight it. The most commonly used strategies and programs for combating juvenile delinquency problems primarily rely on intuition and fads. Fortunately, as a result of the promising new research documented in ""Changing Lives"", these deficiencies in our juvenile justice system might quickly be remedied. Peter W. Greenwood demonstrates here that as crimes rates have fallen, researchers have identified more connections between specific risk factors and criminal behavior, while program developers have discovered a wide array of innovative interventions. The result of all this activity, he reveals, has been the revelation of a few prevention models that reduce crime much more cost-effectively than popular approaches such as tougher sentencing, DARE, boot camps, and ""scared straight"" programs. ""Changing Lives"" expertly presents the most promising of these prevention programs, their histories, the quality of evidence to support their effectiveness, the public policy programs involved in bringing them into wider use, and the potential for investments and developmental research to increase the range and quality of programs.

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"""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 policy makers have continued to support ineffective programs."" - Barry Krisberg, president, National Council on Crime Delinquency"""

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 policy makers have continued to support ineffective programs. - Barry Krisberg, president, National Council on Crime Delinquency

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Peter W. Greenwood is the former director of the RAND Corporation's Criminal Justice Program. He is coauthor of four previous books, including, most recently, Investing in Our Children.

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