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It has been almost 15 years since the Blueprints for Violence Prevention program at the University of Colorado first identified 10 programs that met their rigorous standards for being called a proven model program. During this same period, economists developed cost-benefit models that allowed them to estimate, with a fair degree of accuracy, the likely costs and benefits that would result if these programs were adopted, in particular settings.

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Greenwood, P. (2014). Introduction. In: Evidence-Based Practice in Juvenile Justice. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8908-5_1

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