Lost in Translation No More: Marketing Evidence-Based Policies for Reducing Juvenile Crime
Redding, R.E. (2015). Lost in translation no more: Marketing evidence-based policies for reducing juvenile crime. In N. Dowd (Ed.), A New Juvenile Justice: Total Reform for a Broken System (pp. 139-155). New York: NYU Press.
17 Pages Posted: 24 Sep 2014 Last revised: 18 Jun 2015
Date Written: 2015
Abstract
Even though effective evidence-based juvenile offender rehabilitation programs have been available for twenty years, such programs are underutilized and frequently misperceived as too ineffective, costly, and lenient because they fail to satisfy society’s retributive need to punish offenders. But the public, policy makers, prosecutors, and judges will support and utilize evidence-based programs when apparent conflicts between the demand for evidence-based programs, concerns about program effectiveness and costs, and the felt need for punishment are reconciled. This chapter outlines how this can be accomplished by using evidence-based persuasion strategies to effectively communicate the compatibility of these three goals.
Keywords: Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Crime Prevention, Rehabilitation Programs, Evidence-Based
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