Making Toronto safer

The cost benefit study framed the intervention of THS as a public good and a service to the community as well as the ex-prisoner and assessed the benefit with all public stakeholders in mind. [...] Then the issue of deservedness is really a question of whether the community deserves to be safe, whether the community deserves another functioning member, whether the community deserves to have lower costs, and whether the community deserves to have lower incidence of crime. [...] It is therefore important to promote the view that, “…although there are different pockets, the pockets are on the same pair of pants.” Accordingly, the audience for this and similar cost-benefit analyses is governments and members of the public who wish to assess and understand the best and least expensive 4. John Roman and Aaron Chalfin, Does it Pay to Invest in Reentry Programs for Jail Inmates [...] In addition to being unworthy of assistance, the presence of the ex-prisoner is believed to degrade the community and perhaps the value of their properties. [...] They therefore view the benefits as only accruing to the ex-prisoner, for which the public, and not the ex-prisoner, bears some portion of the costs.