Tiffany Bergin

The Evidence Enigma

Correctional Boot Camps and Other Failures in Evidence-Based Policymaking

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the questions of why policy makers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported by evidence and how scholars and practitioners can encourage policymakers to listen to research. In exploring these questions, this book presents 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781138279438
• ISBN-10: 1138279439
• Artikelnr.: 57039947

Autorenporträt

Tiffany Bergin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Evidence-based policymaking
Correctional boot camps in the United States
Research evidence and the diffusion of public policies
Quantitative models of the diffusion and contraction of boot camps
Case studies of two states
Further analysis and future implications
References
Appendix
Index.