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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Other Title:

Private versus public operation of juvenile correctional facilities

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2001.

Language Note:

English

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:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

1 Introduction

2 Privatization of Correctional Facilities

3 Conditions of Confinement in Juvenile Correctional Facilities

4 Methodology

5 Scale Analyses

6 Results

Discussion

References

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-931202-82-6

OCLC:

53437272