Measuring Prison Performance
eBook - ePub

Measuring Prison Performance

Government Privatization and Accountability

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eBook - ePub

Measuring Prison Performance

Government Privatization and Accountability

About this book

Gaes and his distinguished coauthors offer a comprehensive analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated in the 1980s with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system. The authors argue that prison performance must be measured in reference to the goals of a particular prison system and introduce the technique of multilevel modeling to allow for simultaneous measurement of the individual and the institution. They also show how their analytic framework can be applied to other criminal justice components_prosecution, adjudication, postrelease supervision, policing_and to evaluating the privatization of almost any publicly administered service. They contend that the ability to meaningfully compare public and private prisons can better inform penal policy and improve prison performance and accountability. This book will be a valuable resource for public administrators and policy analysts, corrections personnel and criminologists.

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Yes, you can access Measuring Prison Performance by Gerald G. Gaes,Scott D. Camp,Julianne B. Nelson,William G. Saylor in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Criminology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
AltaMira Press
Year
2004
eBook ISBN
9780759115361
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND POLICY SERIES
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. CHAPTER ONE - CONCEPTUALIZING PRISON PERFORMANCE
  8. CHAPTER TWO - PRISON AUDITS
  9. CHAPTER THREE - UNDERSTANDING THE MEASUREMENT CONTEXT—QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT
  10. CHAPTER FOUR - MULTILEVEL MODELS AND BEHAVIORAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES
  11. CHAPTER FIVE - STAFF AND INMATE SURVEYS AS PERFORMANCE MEASURES
  12. CHAPTER SIX - COST ANALYSES
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COST AND PERFORMANCE AND THE ROLE OF PRISON LABOR
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT - SYSTEM LEVEL MEASUREMENT
  15. CHAPTER NINE - A LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE OF RECIDIVISM
  16. CHAPTER TEN - PRISON PERFORMANCE TEMPLATES, USER-FRIENDLY PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT TOOLS, AND CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN - LESSONS FROM THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LITERATURE
  18. CHAPTER TWELVE - LOOKING BACKWARD AND LOOKING FORWARD
  19. APPENDIX
  20. NOTES
  21. REFERENCES
  22. INDEX
  23. ABOUT THE AUTHORS