@article{ref1,
title="Public support for early intervention: is child saving a "habit of the heart"?",
journal="Victims and offenders",
year="2007",
author="Cullen, Francis T. and Vose, Brenda A. and Lero Jonson, Cheryl N. and Unnever, James D.",
volume="2",
number="2",
pages="109-124",
abstract="Despite portrayals of Americans as exceptionally punitive and as favoring &quot;get tough&quot; solutions to offending, a wealth of survey research shows that the public also supports a social welfare, rehabilitative approach to crime control. Opinion polls reveal that citizens are particularly supportive of efforts to intervene with at-risk children and youths--so much so that belief in child saving can be considered an American &quot;habit of the heart.&quot; It is clear that public opinion is not a barrier to early intervention programs. In fact, such public support, combined with increasing evidence of the behavioral and cost effectiveness of treatment programs, might soon coalesce to create a &quot;tipping point&quot; in which early intervention becomes a viable policy agenda on the national level.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1556-4886",
doi="10.1080/15564880701263015",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564880701263015"
}