RT Article
T1 Getting tough on juvenile crime: an analysis of costs and benefits
JF Journal of research in crime and delinquency
VO 39
IS 4
SP 363
OP 399
A1 Fass, Simon M.
A2 Pi, Chung-ron 1959-
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639319905
AB Recent decades have seen juvenile justice broaden its focus from the child and treatment to include offenses and accountability. This expansion, manifest in juvenile codes that support punishment and doctrines that include transfers to adult criminal court, has had significant caseload and fiscal impacts. However, a scarcity of pertinent research and of cost-benefit analyses leaves unclear whether this newer, get tough focus achieves greater delinquency reduction than previously attained. Combined with a quasi-experimental empirical simulation of the effects of punitive sanctions, a cost-benefit analysis of alternative dispositions in Dallas County, Texas, suggests that harsher sentencing can indeed prevent some offenses. The value of this gain, however, is much less than its cost to produce. As a result, by consuming public resources that might otherwise be invested in more productive purposes within or outside the justice system, the policy of toughness visits substantial opportunity costs on communities that embrace it
K1 Jugendgerichtsbarkeit
K1 USA
K1 Jugendkriminalität
K1 Strafverfolgung
K1 Ökonomik
K1 Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse
K1 Alternative Massnahmen
K1 Sanktionsforschung
K1 Kriminalpolitik