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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Its Application to Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Research
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Its Application to Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Research
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 28, 2011
ANNOTATION: Agencies wanting to compare the costs involved in implementing one program versus another will find this explanation of the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) very useful. CBA cannot determine a program’s effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes; this is program evaluation. CBA does show the expected costs and benefits resulting from a program’s utilization. Sections of this report following a set of acronyms include: introduction and overview of cost-benefit analysis—difference between cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, application to the crime prevention field, steps in conducting a cost-benefit analysis, defining the scope, determining benefits, tangible and intangible costs, determining costs, and limitation of cost-benefit analysis; evaluation of cost-benefit analysis; nine case studies; other Australian and New Zealand case studies; discussion and conclusion; and an appendix summarizing the nine case studies.
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