Prevention programs pay for themselves through avoided criminal justice costs
Evidence
The finding that the majority of social return came from avoided criminal justice costs rather than productivity gains has direct policy implications: it means prevention programs are fiscally defensible on criminal justice savings alone, independent of human-capital arguments about labor market outcomes. — , The Rod and the Child, 10790
Categorization
- XREF: Reinforces the ‘prevention pays’ economic argument threaded through this book’s policy chapters. — connects to: Pretrial process costs can exceed the actual penalty for minor offenders — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1663