| Description |
xii, 82 pages, 22 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Executive Summary -- Introduction : Purpose of the Project -- Part One : A Conceptual Framework for the Costing of Juvenile Justice --A Social Cost Perspective: Crime and Crime Prevention -- A Social Cost Perspective: Crime Reduction -- A Government Cost Perspective -- A Program Cost Perspective -- Cost Minimisation -- A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Benefits of Juvenile Crime and Delinquency Avoidance -- A Social Perspective on Benefits (and Costs) -- Cost-Effectiveness Approaches --- Part Two A : Some Direct Costs of Crime -- Introduction -- A Preamble to Costs: Identifying the Juvenile Offender -- The Task Ahead -- Paucity of Data -- Estimating the Proportion of Juvenile Involvement in Offences Cleared -- Problem of Attributing Crime Costs to Juveniles -- Motor Vehicle Theft -- Household Burglary -- Vandalism and Local Government -- Arson and Vandalism -- Telecom Vandalism --Vandalism of Public Transport -- Shoplifting -- Estimating Some Costs of Violent Crime: The Cost of Injuries -- Summary -- Part Two B : Crime Prevention Costs -- Some Estimates of Governmental Costs of Crime Prevention -- The Police -- Costing Police Action: Some Paradigm Cases -- Cost-Effectiveness of Police Cautions -- Aggregate Estimates of Crime Prevention Costs -- Cost of Children's Courts -- The Cost of Incarceration -- Costing Departmental Work and Non-Custodial Measures -- Security Industry -- The Principle of Parsimony -- Summary -- Part Three : Juvenile Crime Prevention Programs -- Research on Juvenile Crime Prevention and Treatment: The Grounds for Hope -- Who Commits Offences? -- What Do We Know About Delinquency Predictors? -- Pre-School Based Prevention Strategies -- School-Based Prevention Strategies -- Parent-Training Prevention Programs and Child Abuse Prevention -- Non-Traditional Treatment Programs -- The Evidence on Psychotherapy Treatment and Other ̀Community' -- Programs -- Conclusions --Appendices |
| Summary |
"Report to the Department of Employment, Education and Training (Youth Bureau) from the Australian Institute of Criminology, July 1989" -- t.p. verso |
| Analysis |
Crime prevention |
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Criminal justice |
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Federal issue |
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Juvenile delinquency |
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Youth |
| Notes |
"Report to the Department of Employment, Education and Training (Youth Bureau) from the Australian Institute of Criminology, July 1989" - t.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 73-82 |
| Subject |
Crime prevention -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Criminal statistics -- Australia.
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Juvenile delinquency -- Economic aspects -- Australia.
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Crime prevention -- Australia -- Finance.
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Juvenile delinquency -- Australia -- Prevention.
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Juvenile delinquency -- Australia.
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Australia -- Costs.
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| Author |
Vining, Aidan.
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Wilson, Paul R.
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Australia. Youth Bureau
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Australian Institute of Criminology.
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| LC no. |
91129438 |
| ISBN |
0642155380 |
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