Brandon C. Welsh, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. David P. Farrington, Ph.D., F.B.A., is professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and Jerry Lee Research Professor of Criminology at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland. Lawrence W. Sherman Ph.D., is Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Jerry Lee centre of Criminology and Fels centre of Government, University of Pennsylvania.

• Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Assessing the Economic Costs and Benefits of Crime Prevention , Methods and Perspectives of Economic Analysis , The Crime Victim's Perspective in Cost-Benefit Analysis , Quantitative Exploration of the Pandora's Box of Treatment and Supervision , Economic Analysis Findings , A Review of Research on the Monetary Value of Preventing Crime , Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions , The Comparative Costs and Benefits of Programs to Reduce Crime , International Policy Perspectives , Evaluation of the United Kingdom's Crime Reduction Programme , Economic Analysis of Crime Prevention , Recent Evolution of Governmental Crime Prevention Strategies and Implications for Evaluation and Economic Analysis , Future Directions , Measuring Economic Benefits of Developmental Prevention Programs , Improving Confidence in What Works and Saves Money in Preventing Crime