CRM/LAW C109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Indirect Costs, Public Health, Job Corps
16 Jun 2018
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Chapter 12: delinquency prevention
I. The many faces of delinquency
A. Costs of delinquency: A justification for prevention
1. Damaged property, pain and suffering to victims, involvement of police
and other agencies, medical care and lost wages, quality of life decreased
2. State costs: juvenile perpetrator costs were made up of costs to juvenile
and adult justice system (probation, detention, juvenile treatment
programs, incarceration costs)
3. National costs: $3.2 trillion per year. Costs incurred by federal, state, and
local government to assist victims of juvenile violence.
a) Indirect costs to victim - pain, suffering, reduced quality of life.
B. Brief history of delinquency prevention
1. Chicago area project: 1933 by Shaw and McKay.
a) Produce social change in communities that suffered from high
delinquency rate and gang activity
2. Cambridge somerville youth study: program was more on improving
individual than their surroundings
3. Detached street worker: reach out to youths who were unlikely to use
community centers, these people were sent into inner city neighborhoods
creating close relationships with juvenile gangs and groups
4. Federally funded programs: based on social structure theory, to improve
socialization of lower class youths to reduce their potential for future
delinquency
5. Contemporary preventive approaches: shift from neighborhood
reclamation projects to more individualized, family centered treatment
C. Classifying delinquency prevention
1. Public health approach - Prevent diseases and injuries
a) Primary prevention
(1) Improve general wellbeing of individuals thru measures
such as access to health care services and general
prevention education, and modifying conditions in physical
environment
b) secondary prevention
(1) Intervening with children and young people who are
potentially at risk for becoming offenders
c) Tertiary prevention
(1) Intervening with adjudicated juvenile offenders through
such measures as substance abuse treatment and
imprisonment (reduce repeat offending)
2. Developmental perspective
a) Interventions, those targeting risk factors and protective factors
that are designed to prevent the development of criminal potential
in individuals
