cost-benefit
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Knowledge Brief: How Can We Know If Juvenile Justice Reforms Are Worth the Cost?
- Dec 1, 2011, Models for Change Research Initiative
- With governments at every level facing grim budget forecasts, policymakers need to knowas much as possible about what juvenile justice activities yield the greatest social good fora given level of…
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The Real Costs and Benefits of Change: Finding Opportunities for Reform During Difficult Fiscal Times
- Jul 14, 2010, National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN)
- The financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 means that almost all states are facing alarming budget shortfalls. Because of these fiscal crises, advocates can expect increasingly significant pushback from…
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Conducting Benefit-Cost Analyses of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction and Other Juvenile Justice Policies
- Dec 21, 2009, Jens Ludwig, Roseanna Ander & Laura Brinkman
- Concern about juvenile crime in the 1980s led most states across the country to enact policy changes that made it easier to transfer juvenile arrestees into the adult criminal justice system (Hahn et…
