WORKSHEET 9: Collecting Information on Benefits and Costs

(A) State your preferred policy:

Establish a Community Teen Court.

(B) Identify an important benefit and cost for your preferred policy and next to each one, describe how you would measure it and what your source of data would be:

BENEFIT: HOW MEASURED AND SOURCE OF DATA:

Decrease in teen Number of vandalism cases reported by the police

vandalism in the

community

COST: HOW MEASURED AND SOURCE OF DATA:

Fewer volunteers for Assessed by means of reports from volunteer organizations

other organizations