Title

  • Evaluating Boot Camp Prisons

Date

  • 1994

Creator

Bibliographic Citation

  • from The Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy (1994)

Abstract

  • Boot camps have been proposed to meet various goals, including public safety, cost savings, offender rehabilitation, and the reduction of prison overcrowding, but research evidence to date does not indicate that boot camps have had a significant impact in any of these areas.

Keywords

  • corrections costs
  • juvenile offenders
  • juvenile recidivism
  • juvenile rehabilitation
  • prison overcrowding
  • shock incarceration programs
  • youthful offenders

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