Measuring Prison Performance

Government Privatization and Accountability

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

AvGerald G. Gaes,Scott D. Camp,Julianne B. Nelson,William G. Saylor

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-09-14
Mått188 x 227 x 15 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieViolence Prevention and Policy
Antal sidor240
FörlagAltaMira Press
ISBN9780759105874

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Kriminalvård och straff inom Samhalle och politik

Gerald G. Gaes is visiting scientist at the National Institute of Justice and a criminal justice consultant and was director of the Office of Research (Bureau of Prisons) until his retirement in August 2002. Scott D. Camp is a senior social science analyst with the Office of Research at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Julianne B. Nelson is a consultant in the corrections field with more than twenty years of experience working on a wide range of topics as an economic and financial analyst. William G. (Bo) Saylor is the lead statistical research methodologist and director of research for the Office of Research and Evaluation (Bureau of Prisons).

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Motivation for the Book and a Statement of the IssuesChapter 2 Chapter 1. Conceptualizing Prison PerformanceChapter 3 Chapter 2. Prison AuditsChapter 4 Chapter 3: Understanding The Measurement Context—Qualitative AssessmentChapter 5 Chapter 4: Multilevel Models and Behavioral Performance MeasuresChapter 6 Chapter 5: Staff and Inmate Surveys as Performance MeasuresChapter 7 Chapter 6: Cost AnalysesChapter 8 Chapter 7: The Relationship between Cost and Performance and the Role of Prison LaborChapter 9 Chapter 8: System Level MeasurementChapter 10 Chapter 9: A Life Course Perspective of RecidivismChapter 11 Chapter 10: Prison Performance Templates, User Friendly Performance Measurement Tools, and Contract ComplianceChapter 12 Chapter 11: Lessons from the Public Administration LiteratureChapter 13 Chapter 12: Looking Backward and Looking ForwardChapter 14 ReferencesChapter 15 IndexChapter 16 About the Author

Measuring Prison Performance breaks new ground in corrections. Long overdue, this book lays out the theory and methods to develop a practical way to evaluate prison performance. It integrates topics from the disciplines of public administration, economics, criminology, and criminal justice to provide unique insights. More than that, this book can be used as a paradigm to evaluate the performance of any public agency, and can be used as a model to make decisions about the privatization of public services.