Prospective Cost Benefit Analysis of Healing Centres

Description

This is a useful report that includes evaluation information, about the cost benefit of Aboriginal healing programs for the justice system. The report recommends that evaluation measures for future healing programs include Indigenous and non-indigenous outcomes to enable ongoing assessment of cost benefits in the future. It also recommends information to include. The likely benefit-cost ratio for new healing centres is estimated in this report as 4.4 to 1. Benefits that have been quantified in the literature include reduced rates of incarceration and recidivism, though other benefits are difficult to quantify.

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