Measuring prison performance: government privatization and accountability
Auteur :
Gaes, Gerald G. / Camp, Scott D. / Nelson, Julianne B. / Saylor, William G.
Éditeur :
AltaMira Press
ISBN :
9780759105874
Date de publication :
14 sept. 2004
Dimensions :
22,7 x 18,8 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
376 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Offers an analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system in the 1980s. The authors measure prison performance with the technique of multi-level modeling for simultaneous measurement of the individual and the institution.