What’s on the Early Intervention poster
A definition and 5 facts worth remembering.
Programmes targeting developmental risk factors in childhood, evaluated over long follow-up periods.
- Some early-years programmes show long-run effects
- Parenting programmes have the better evidence
- Effects are usually broad, not crime-specific
- Long follow-up is needed to see anything
- Targeting carries a risk of stigmatising children
- Evidence pattern — Modest effects, wide social benefit
- Key constraint — Results take decades to appear
- Crime reduction often arrives as a by-product of health and education gains.
Educational reference. Landmark early-years trials had small samples; replication at scale has produced more modest results.
Questions about the Early Intervention poster
- What’s on the Early Intervention poster?
- A definition and 5 facts worth remembering. Programmes targeting developmental risk factors in childhood, evaluated over long follow-up periods. Some early-years programmes show long-run effects; Parenting programmes have the better evidence; Effects are usually broad, not crime-specific; Long follow-up is needed to see anything; Targeting carries a risk of stigmatising children; Evidence pattern — Modest effects, wide social benefit; Key constraint — Results take decades to appear; Crime reduction often arrives as a by-product of health and education gains.. Educational reference. Landmark early-years trials had small samples; replication at scale has produced more modest results.
- Who is the Early Intervention poster for?
- Early Intervention belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policy & evidence can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Early Intervention poster?
- Use it when long-run prevention is compared with immediate enforcement. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Early Intervention belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Early Intervention?
- Cost-Benefit in Justice Policy, Certainty Beats Severity and Measuring Disproportionality sit alongside Early Intervention in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Cost-Benefit in Justice PolicyCertainty Beats SeverityMeasuring Disproportionality
- Is the Early Intervention poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Early Intervention downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Early Intervention poster print at?
- Early Intervention is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Early Intervention loses nothing.Printing guide
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