Article: POPULAR METHODS OF YOUTH CRIME PREVENTION MAY NOT ALWAYS BE BEST CITIES SHOULD PUT MONEY INTO THE HANDFUL OF PREVENTION PROGRAMS THAT HAVE PROVEN PAYOFFS, EVEN IF THEY COST MORE, EXPERT SAYS.(News)

Everybody wants to reduce youth crime.

But more than 90 percent of the money spent on preventing juvenile delinquency in this country is poured into programs that don't work, says Peter Greenwood, a national expert in crime prevention.

Instead of funding what's popular or politically expedient, cities like Seattle should put money into the handful of prevention programs that have proven payoffs, says Greenwood, a researcher from RAND's Santa Monica-based criminal justice program. RAND is a non-profit domestic policy think tank.

``There's only about a dozen programs for which we have that evidence,'' Greenwood told the downtown Seattle audience ...

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