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The effectiveness of juvenile correctional facilities : public versus private management
Bayer, Patrick J.; Pozen, David E. - 2004 - Revised
facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on … recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional … to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607733
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The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Public versus Private Management
Bayer, Patrick; Pozen, David E. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003
facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on … recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional … to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558494
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The effectiveness of juvenile correctional facilities : public versus private management
Bayer, Patrick J.; Pozen, David E. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001796241
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Managing a Correctional Marketplace : Prison Privatization in the United States and the United Kingdom
Pozen, David - 2004
This paper traces the recent history and development of privately operated prisons in the United States and the United Kingdom, and it compares their current role in the countries' correctional systems. The privatization movements of the U.S. and the U.K. were driven by similar factors, but the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073385
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The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Public Versus Private Management
Bayer, Patrick; Pozen, David E. - 2003
facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on … recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional … to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444168
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The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities : Public Versus Private Management
Bayer, Patrick J.; Pozen, David - 2008
facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on … recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional … to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029823
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Does HAVA Help the Have-Nots? U.S. Adoption of New Election Equipment, 1980-2008
Johnson, Daniel K. N.; Acri née Lybecker, Kristina M.L - 2012
of electoral equipment in many parts of the US. In reaction to public dismay over "hanging chads", Congress quickly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213450
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Institutional change in search of the market: The case of Slovenia
Glismann, Hans H.; Horn, Ernst-Jürgen; Stanovnik, Peter - 1995
Six main characteristics of an economic order are discussed and empirically evaluated for the case of Slovenia. All of them pertain to the institutional setting ab urbe condita; they comprise the legal and jurisdictional situation, the role of private property, the institutionalised strive at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275197
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Building criminal capital behind bars : social learning in juvenile corrections
Bayer, Patrick J.; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Pozen, David E. - 2003
on recidivism is identified using only the variation in the length of time that any two individuals serving a sentence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608230
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Corruption, Public Finances, and the Unofficial Economy
Johnson, Simon; Kaufmann, Daniel; Zoido, Pablo - 2004
In this sample of 49 Latin American, OECD, and transition economies, it is the ineffective and discretionary administration of tax and regulatory regimes--not higher tax rates alone--as well as corruption, that increases the size of the unofficial economy. And countries with a larger unofficial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042648