The Monetary Value of Saving a High-Risk Youth

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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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Main Author: Cohen, Mark A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1998
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 1998, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-33
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Keywords:
high-school dropouts
heavy drug users
career criminals
Prevention programs
Cost-benefit analysis
high-risk youth
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