The figures are out there for the cost of incarceration and such. The largest growing incarceration population in the US are young females. A switch from incarceration to social service intervention would be flagged in this country as socialism and abruptly stopped. In Great Britain social services are coordinating their effort as a unified intervention rather than individual departments acting separate. Cutting cost dramatically down. Hilary Cotton's Ted Talk mentions this disfunction of 73 service operating out of 24 departments in one city. It's taking time to slide TIC under the radar, but it is moving forward.
And it is proven that intervention is cheaper than punitive incarceration. I can not tell you how many times I have talked to people in CPS and other child care employees in N.Y. state that never herd of TIC or ACEs. Just this morning on an EMS call I was on, a long time friend and a employee of Children Service for 32 years has never herd of the movement across this country. Once I told him about it, he's hook on knowing more. We just have to keep informing everyone.