The Monetary Value of Saving a High-Risk Youth

Programs targeted at high-risk youth are designed to prevent high-school dropout, crime, drug abuse, and other forms of delinquency. Even if shown to be successful in reducing one or more social ill, a key policy question is whether the cost to society from that intervention program exceeds its bene...

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Autor principal: Cohen, Mark A. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1998
En: Journal of quantitative criminology
Año: 1998, Volumen: 14, Número: 1, Páginas: 5-33
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