Evidence Enigma
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Adult Incarceration Rate
Author_Tiffany Bergin
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Boot Camp Program
Boot Camps
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Campbell Collaboration Review
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Correctional Boot Camps
Crack Cocaine
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Criminal Justice Policies
Criminal Justice Policymaking
criminology research
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Event History Models
evidence-based criminal justice policy
Hazard Probability
justice
juvenile
Juvenile Boot Camp
Juvenile Incarceration Rate
Kingdon's Theory
Kingdon’s Theory
Legislative Professionalism
Military Boot Camps
offender rehabilitation programmes
Otto Von Bismarck
policy
policy diffusion
Policy Diffusion Literature
Policy Diffusion Theory
policymaking
Predictor Variables
program
programme evaluation
public sector decision making
Punitive Criminal Justice Policies
Qualitative Coding Strategies
Qualitative Component
quantitative analysis
Quantitative Component
Racial Threat Theories
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- ISBN 9781138279438
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why do policymakers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported by evidence? How can scholars and practitioners encourage policymakers to listen to research? This book explores these questions, presenting a fascinating case study of a policy that did not work, yet spread rapidly to almost every state in the United States: the policy of correctional boot camps. Examining the claims on which the implementation of the policy were based, including the assertions that such boot camps would reduce reoffending, save public money and ease overcrowding - none of which proved to be universally accurate - The Evidence Enigma also investigates the political, economic, cultural, and other factors which encouraged the spread of this policy. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used to test hypotheses, as the author draws rich comparisons with other policies, including Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), abstinence-only sex education programs, and the electronic monitoring or tagging of offenders in England and Wales. Presenting important lessons for guarding against the proliferation of policies that don't work in future, this ground-breaking and accessible book will be of interest to those working in the fields of criminology, sociology and social and public policy.
Tiffany Bergin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University, USA.
