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The Economics of Juvenile Jurisdiction: A White Paper from the Research Roundtable on Estimating the Costs and Benefits of the Separate Juvenile Justice System

Publication year: 2005 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to examine the economic consequences of juvenile versus criminal justice is discussed. Sections contained in this paper are: introduction; cost-benefit analysis; policy definitions for juvenile justice and criminal justice; policy choices -- complete abolition, legal abolition with reinvention, or incremental jurisdictional changes; practical issues -- distinguishing adult vs. juvenile justice, outcomes, implementation, and time horizon; conceptual framework; research designs; and conclusion.
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