Principles for Effective Prevention

MENTOR: The National Mentor Partnership is the unifying champs for expanding quality youth mentoring relationships in the United States. MENTOR has served the mentoring field by providing a public voice, developing and delivering resources to mentoring programs nationwide and promoting quality for mentoring through standards, cutting-edge research and state of the art tools.

Below you’ll find a link of a publication by MENTOR title Applying the Principle of Prevention: What do Prevention Practitioners Need to Know About What Works? to help inform people on principles of effective prevention program.

Center for Court Innovation Violence Prevention Publications

The Center for Court Innovation has created publications regarding violence prevention. A number of these articles can be used to inform research or policy for schools or individuals who want more information with respects how law works with prevention programming.

Click below to read their publications!

The Cost of Crime to Society

In a report hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health titled “The Cost of Crime to Society: New Crime-Specific Estimates for Policy and Program Evaluation” by Kathryn E. McCollister, Michael T. French, and Hai Fang review crime-costing literature in the hopes of showing how prevention programs that directly or indirectly prevent crime can generate substantial economic benefits by reducing crime-related costs incurred by victims, communities, and the criminal justice system.

To read the study, click on the view resource button below!