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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice

No. 134: The economics of implementing intensive in-prison sex-offender treatment programs

Ron Donato and Martin Shanahan
ISBN 0 642 24131 7 ; ISSN 0817-8542
November 1999

Abstract

The Criminology Research Council funded a study that investigated the economic costs and benefits of implementing in-prison sex offender treatment programs for male child sex offenders. This paper provides a summary of key aspects of the larger study and outlines the components of costs and benefits and associated parameters involved in the analysis.

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