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From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and index.;Conceptualizing prison performance -- Prison audits -- Understanding the measurement context--qualitative assessment -- Multilevel models and behavioral performance measures -- Staff and inmate surveys as performance measures -- Cost analyses -- The relationship between cost and performance and the role of prison labor -- System level measurement -- A life course perspective of recidivism -- Prison performance templates, user-friendly performance measurement tools, and contract compliance -- Lessons from the public administration literature -- Looking backward and looking forward. "Gerald G. Gaes and his...coauthors offer a comprehensive analysis of public versus private management of prisons. They argue that prison performance must be measured in reference to the goals of a particular prison system and introduce the valuable technique of multi-level modeling--allowing for simultaneous measurement of the individual and the institution. The authors show how their analytic framework can be applied to other criminal justice components as well--prosecution, adjudication, postrelease supervision, policing--and to evaluating the privatization of almost any publicly administered service"--Back cover.
From the Publisher
Gaes and his distinguished co-authors offer a comprehensive analysis of public vs. 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. Their work points the way to improved penal policy and accountability, and will be a valuable resource for public administrators, policy analysts, corrections personnel and criminologists. Visit our website for sample chapters!