Private vs. public operation of juvenile correctional facilities / Gaylene Styve Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Gaylene Styve.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile corrections--United States--Evaluation.

Juvenile corrections.

Juvenile corrections--Contracting out--United States.

Privatization--United States.

Privatization.

Juvenile corrections--Contracting out.

Evaluation.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 178 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Private versus public operation of juvenile correctional facilities

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2001.

Summary:

Armstrong studies the environmental quality of confinement in private and public juvenile correctional facilities using data from 48 facilities, representing 4,590 delinquents, 1,362 staff, and 48 administrators in 19 states (16 private and 32 public facilities). Her results demonstrate that neither staff nor juvenile delinquents perceived the environmental quality to be significantly different between private and public facilities. Further, compared to public facilities, private facilities were smaller, newer and had a more intensive admission process for juvenile delinquents. Public and Private correctional staff differed significantly on age and prior work experience. Differences in the juvenile populations were minimal.

Contents:

2. Privatization of Correctional Facilities 7

3. Conditions of Confinement in Juvenile Correctional Facilities 33

4. Methodology 45

5. Scale Analyses 55.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.

ISBN:

1931202001

OCLC:

47927569