Title

Public support for early intervention programs: Implications for a progressive policy agenda

Abstract

Since the early 1970s, criminologists have embraced the view that only broader social justice will reduce crime - a stance that has largely surrendered criminal justice policy to conservatives. Emerging research shows, however, that early intervention programs prevent crime and are cost effective. Based on a 1997 survey of Tennessee respondents, the article reports further that the public supports early intervention strongly and prefers it to incarceration as a strategy to reduce offending. Thus, the article contends that early intervention programs, which extend services to at-risk children and families, comprise an important progressive policy initiative that criminologists and policy makers should support. © 1998 Sage Publications, Inc.

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Publication Title

Crime and Delinquency

Volume

44

Issue

2

Number of Pages

187-204

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128798044002001

Socpus ID

22044436876 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/22044436876

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