Getting Tough on Juvenile Crime : An Analysis of Costs And Benefits  

Oleh:

Fass, Simon M. ; Chung, Ron Pi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (http://jrc.sagepub.com/) vol. 39 no. 4 (Nov. 2002), page 363-399.
Topik: juvenile; juvenile crime; cost and benefits
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Recent decades have seen juvenile justice broaden its focus from the child and treatment to include offenses and accountabiility. 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 disposisitons 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 outside the justice system, the policy of toughness visits substantial opportunity costs on communities that embrace it.

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