The Benefits and Costs of Early Prevention Compared With Imprisonment: Toward Evidence-Based Policy

Prison Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Welsh, Brandon C ^a   Farrington, David P ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

benefit cost analysis; early prevention; effectiveness; evidence based policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855915983     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: 15527522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885511415236     Document Type: Article

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