This review was a pilot test for the Campbell Collaboration (C2) using the existing infrastructure of the Cochrane Collaboration Development, Psychosocial, and Learning Disorders Editorial Group. The full text of this review was published in the Cochrane Library (beginning in 2002, issue 2) and will also be made available in the Campbell Collaboration Reviews of Interventions and Policy Effects (C2-RIPE) database. Parts of this paper are also published in the September 2003 issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Support was received from the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the UK Home Office. Phyllis Schultze of the Criminal Justice Collection at Rutgers University and Carla Lillvik of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Library greatly facilitated interlibrary loan requests. We appreciate the assistance of the Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial, and Learning Disorders Group team: Jane Dennis, Geraldine MacDonald, Stuart Logan and the other Editorial Group members, Celia Almedia, Jo Abbott, and Julian Higgins. Comments by Robert Boruch, Iain Chalmers, Phoebe Cottingham, Lyn Feder, and Joan McCord on earlier drafts of this work also helped.
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Petrosino, A., Petrosino, CT., Buehler, J. (2006). Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs. In: Welsh, B.C., Farrington, D.P. (eds) Preventing Crime. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4244-2_6
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