American criminal justice policy [electronic resource] : an evaluation approach to increasing accountability and effectiveness / Daniel P. Mears.
2010
HV6025 .M376 2010eb
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American criminal justice policy [electronic resource] : an evaluation approach to increasing accountability and effectiveness / Daniel P. Mears.
Author
Mears, Daniel P., 1966-
ISBN
9780511726217 (electronic book)
9780521762465
9780521746236
9780521762465
9780521746236
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 321 p.) : ill.
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HV6025 .M376 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.973
Summary
"American Criminal Justice Policy examines many of the most prominent criminal justice policies on the American landscape and finds that they fall well short of achieving the accountability and effectiveness that policymakers have advocated and that the public expects. The policies include mass incarceration, sex offender laws, supermax prisons, faith-based prisoner reentry programs, transfer of juveniles to adult court, domestic violence mandatory arrest laws, drug courts, gun laws, community policing, private prisons, and many others. Optimistically, Daniel P. Mears argues that this situation can be changed through systematic incorporation of evaluation research into policy development, monitoring, and assessment. To this end, the book provides a clear and accessible discussion of five types of evaluation - needs, theory, implementation or process, outcome and impact, and cost-efficiency. And it identifies how they can be used both to hold the criminal justice system accountable and to increase the effectiveness of crime control and crime prevention efforts."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-317) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Irrational criminal justice policy
A solution for improving criminal justice policy : evaluation research
Needs evaluations
Theory evaluations
Implementation evaluations
Outcome evaluations and impact evaluations
Cost-efficiency evaluations
Conclusion.
Irrational criminal justice policy
A solution for improving criminal justice policy : evaluation research
Needs evaluations
Theory evaluations
Implementation evaluations
Outcome evaluations and impact evaluations
Cost-efficiency evaluations
Conclusion.