This report presents findings relating the reduction of crime and violence with access to good educational child care programs. The report discusses the affordability of such programs, suggests that federal and state governments are not adequately funding educational child care programs, and argues that investing in high-quality child care and development programs will result in crime reduction. Following an introduction, Chapter 1 of the report discusses evidence that high-quality educational child care prevents crime and children's problem behaviors, focusing on the High/Scope Preschool Program, the Syracuse University Family Development Program, and North Carolina's Smart Start program. Chapter 2 examines the importance of high-quality child care, while chapter 3 maintains that many low- and moderate-income parents cannot afford high-quality child care. Chapter 4 describes government initiatives for child care, parenting education, and after-school programs and argues that governmental support has been inadequate. Chapter 5 argues that investing in high-quality early childhood education eventually saves money through reduced costs of crime, welfare, and remedial education and in added revenues from taxes paid when preschoolers become adult workers. Chapter 6 presents a call for action by child development experts and law enforcement officials to increase federal and state funding of educational child care programs. Contains 88 endnotes. (KB)