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Francis T. Cullen, PhD; Cheryl Lero Jonson, MA

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(9):866-868.

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Communities That Care (CTC) seeks to prevent or reduce youths' involvement in illegal substance use and criminal activities through an evidence-based public health program. For Archives readers, accustomed to many similar research reports, CTC's strategic approach undoubtedly seems another instance of normal science. Thus, readers might easily overlook the importance of the Hawkins et al study¹ and view their evaluation as an interesting but hardly paradigm-shattering contribution.

As criminologists, however, we reside in a different social and policy world. Punishment is privileged over treatment, owing in part to a concern for exacting just desserts and in part to the belief that the use and threat of pain diminishes future wayward conduct.^2-4 Despite strong evidence to the contrary,^5-7 claims, by scholars and others, are made that "nothing works" to change offenders.^8-9 In a highly politicized environment in which elected officials try to trump . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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