If it can also help damaged children live normal, healthy, crime-free lives, not even the most hard-bitten neurosceptic will be left doubting its value.
Another possible factor is that the younger, and presumably healthier, crime victim is more likely to survive an assault.
Emma started Masaka Runners Club MRCC), to help people stay healthy and to prevent crime by giving otherwise idle adolescents something engaging to do after school.
But safe and healthy communities can prevent crime in the first place with strong schools, more teachers and nurses, and better employment, mental health and treatment services.
Better educated, healthier children commit less crime, reducing societal costs of policing and incarceration.
Ms. Dueringer, the Henry County shelter director, said: "You pick up the young, adult, healthy dog and its only crime is that it's alive.
"It is important," Ms. Patterson said, "that the individual who looks at abuse cases for this commission be an independent professional with experience in investigating crime and a healthy degree of skepticism toward those who have concealed crimes".
Thus, health care organizations potentially play an important role in keeping residents and offenders alike healthy, and potentially, lowering neighborhood crime and recidivism rates.
Marriage and families can make people happier and healthier (Waite 1995), and reduce crime (Laub et al. 1998; Sampson et al. 2006).
