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Download What Works,Programme Evaluations - Youth Crime Sociology - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology of Crime and Punishment in PDF only on Docsity! What Works? Programme Evaluations docsity.com Approaches to Delinquency Prevention and Control • Predelinquent Intervention – Individual Treatment – Area Projects • Preadjudication Intervention – “Informal Probation” – Diversion Programmes/AM/Extrajudical measures docsity.com Classical Experiments have Seven Features: • Random assignment • An experimental group • A control group • A “treatment” or “independent” variable • A “dependent” variable • Pretesting • Posttesting docsity.com Some Suggestions from Programme Evaluations • Scared Straight does not work and has never worked. • Boot Camps don’t work either. • Generally, “prevention” is an elusive goal. • Generally, institutionalization should be reserved for violent offenders. • When more than one approach is determined to be equally effective, the less costly one should be used. docsity.com