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Young people and crime: costs and prevention
Ivan Potas, Aidan Vining and Paul Wilson
ISBN 0 642 15538 0
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1990
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Note: This file does not include the Appendices. Appendix C is available in html (see below)
Abstract
Report to the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training, Youth Bureau, July 1989. The study by the Australian Institute of Criminology sought to provide an overview of the costs of juvenile justice in Australia and to assess the cost of benefits to the nation from the expenditure on juvenile crime prevention and the juvenile justice system.
Contents
- Acknowledgments (PDF 13kB)
- Preface (PDF 141kB)
- Introduction (PDF 7kB)
- Executive summary (PDF 14kB)
- Part one: a conceptual framework for the costing of juvenile justice (PDF 28kB)
- Part two a: some direct costs of crime (PDF 48kB)
- Part two b: crime prevention costs (PDF 61kB)
- Part three: juvenile crime prevention programs (PDF 73kB)
- References (PDF 33kB)
- Appendix A: NSW Children's Court tables (Not currently available)
- Appendix B: work sheet (Not currently available)
- Appendix C: examples of international program evaluation
- Appendix D: persons consulted for the purposed of this report (Not currently available)

