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A Strategy for Making Decisions and Evaluating Alternative Juvenile Offender Treatment Programs: Compensating for Missing Information.

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Roberts, Albert R.; Schervish, Phillip – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1988

National survey data on the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefits of 11 different juvenile offender treatment program types are reviewed. Best-worst-midpoint, threshold, and convergency analyses are applied to these studies. Meaningful ways of dealing with missing information when evaluating alternative juvenile justice policies and programs are…

Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Delinquency, Delinquency Causes

Comparative Influence of Political, Cost/Benefit, and Statistical Information on Administrative Decision Making.

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Lorenzen, Gary L.; Braskamp, Larry A. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1978

In simulated decision-making situations in a community mental health center, three types of information were studied and rated: political; cost-benefit, and statistical. Only cost-benefit information was rated as significantly influencing administrators' decisions. (MH)

Descriptors: Administrators, Community Health Services, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making