Public Support for Early Intervention Programs: Implications for a Progressive Policy Agenda
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1998
Description
Since the early 1970s, criminologists have embraced the view that only broader social justice will reduce crime - a stance that has largely surrendered criminal justice policy to conservatives. Emerging research shows, however, that early intervention programs prevent crime and are cost effective. Based on a 1997 survey of Tennessee respondents, the article reports further that the public supports early intervention strongly and prefers it to incarceration as a strategy to reduce offending. Thus, the article contends that early intervention programs, which extend services to at-risk children and families, comprise an important progressive policy initiative that criminologists and policy makers should support.
Citation Information
Cullen, Francis T.; Wright, John Paul; Brown, Shayna; Moon, Melissa M.; Blankenship, Michael B.; and Applegate, Brandon K.. 1998. Public Support for Early Intervention Programs: Implications for a Progressive Policy Agenda. Crime and Delinquency. Vol.44(2). 187-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128798044002001 ISSN: 0011-1287