Families, Children, and Delinquency --;Promising Interventions: Family Training --;Promising Interventions: Preschool and School Programs --;The Family and Public Policy --;Conclusion: Strategic Opportunities for Delinquency Prevention --;Index.
Are there ways to intervene early in a child's life that might reduce, at a reasonable cost, the probability of his becoming a serious delinquent? In addition, there is growing evidence that some kinds of medical intervention and certain forms of school organization and ethos could help reduce the rate of misconduct.