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Jules Verdone

Jules Verdone

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Safety Technology

A Roundtable Discussion

Public safety agencies face continuing budget pressure and need to get the greatest return from their scarce resources. New public safety technologies (PSTs) have the potential to make law enforcement more effective, whether it is an automated reporting system, protective gear for officers, a crime analysis program, or body cameras to record intera ...

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Jules Verdone, Carl Matthies

October 01, 2014

Publication

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Justice Programs

Seeing the Forest and the Trees

Vera’s Cost-Benefit Knowledge Bank for Criminal Justice (CBKB) project has two main audiences for its work. One is a technical audience, including legislative, policy, budget and fiscal analysts, researchers, evaluators, criminologists, and others in similar or related professions. For these readers, the forest is important, but the trees are more ...

News

Jules Verdone

April 29, 2014

News

Quantity isn’t quality

A look at the complex costs and benefits of policing

A recent page-one article in The New York Times raised fascinating questions about what other jurisdictions can learn from New York City, where the police force expanded in the 1990s and both crime and incarceration have decreased since then. CBKB staff often field questions about whether the benefits of hiring more police officers outweigh the cos ...

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Jules Verdone

February 04, 2013

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Setting an Agenda for Family-Focused Justice Reform

Juvenile and criminal justice systems are increasingly adopting family-focused policies and practices, primarily because research shows that contact with supportive family members can result in better outcomes when individuals are released and return to the community. A family-focused approach to justice reform also has important, if less apparent, ...

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