Hence, a preventive approach might also create more costs in the longer term".
Any savings could be put toward programs that took a preventive approach to childhood sexual assault.
Instead of punishment, understanding what motivates different gang members could lead to a therapeutic and even preventive approach.
What's notable about Triple P is that it pursues a community-wide, preventive approach.
But this preventive approach is sustainable only because its targets are not evenly distributed among the general public but concentrated in Muslim communities.
Flintshire, which borders the English county of Cheshire, was piloting the preventive approach before it came into force in April 2015.
The development corporation, based in Centereach, is also taking a preventive approach on a broader community level in the battle against vacant homes.
Most of the programs focus on problems like helping parolees find jobs or housing the chronically homeless, where a preventive approach could produce obvious savings.
They suggested applying Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), a preventive approach to reducing the risk of physical, chemical and biological hazards.
Ashton Carter, a former assistant secretary of defense, notes that a standard preventive approach in the military is to assign a "red team" to come up with methods of attack, and a "blue team" to design countermeasures.
The Sendai conference should serve as a starting point for a coherent and integrated disaster risk reduction framework that builds on the Hyogo Framework for Action adopted in 2005 and promotes a people-centred preventive approach to disaster risk.
