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Too big to fail and too big to succeed: accounting and privatisation in the Prison Service of England and Wales

Mennicken, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

outgoing HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers has put it in 2010, to the creation of an inflated prison system ‘too big to …

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The Economic Impacts of the Prison Development Boom on Persistently Poor Rural Places

Glasmeier, Amy K.; Farrigan, Tracey - In: International Regional Science Review 30 (2007) 3, pp. 274-299

Prison construction experienced explosive growth over the 1980s and 1990s. Many poor rural communities invited prisons … literature, this research uses a quasiexperimental control group method to examine the effect of state-run prisons constructed in …

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The economic efficiency of rehabilitative management in young offender institutions in England and Wales

Hall, Maximilian J.B.; Liu, Wenbin B.; Simper, Richard; … - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 47 (2013) 1, pp. 38-49

into question the Government's wisdom of building ‘titan’ prisons in England and Wales which, perversely, might decrease …

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The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in Ancient Greece

Daniel D’Amico - In: Public Choice 145 (2010) 3, pp. 461-482

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Private operation with public supervision: evidence of hybrid modes of governance in prisons

Cabral, Sandro; Lazzarini, Sergio; Azevedo, Paulo - In: Public Choice 145 (2010) 1, pp. 281-293

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Do we Want the production of Prison Services to be more "Efficient"?.

Benson, B.L. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 1991

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The Effect of Prison Sentence Length on the Subsequent Employment and Earnings of Criminal Defendants.

Kling, J.R. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1999

This paper examines the employment and earnings of people convicted of committing serious crimes, focusing on the effects of serving any time in prison and of the length of time served on long-term labor market outcomes. Regression analyses control directly for some of the most important factors...

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Recreation or rehabilitation? Managing sport for development programs with prison populations

Gallant, David; Sherry, Emma; Nicholson, Matthew - In: Sport Management Review 18 (2015) 1, pp. 45-56

sport programs in prisons across Australia. Inmates completed qualitative interviews in order to investigate program … themes across the groups. Outcomes for both inmates and prisons tended to focus on inmate health and wellbeing and inmate …

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The Radicalisation of Prison Inmates: A Review of the Literature on Recruitment, Religion and Prisoner Vulnerability

Mulcahy, Elizabeth; Merrington, Shannon; Bell, Peter James - In: Journal of Human Security 9 (2013) 1, pp. 4-14

It should come as no surprise that prisons can become breeding grounds for radicalisation and terrorism as prisons … serve as reservoirs for societyâ€™s most dangerous individuals (Useem & Clayton, 2009). Prisons are places of vulnerability … debate as to where terrorist prisoners should be held. This paper concludes by identifying the major gaps in the literature …

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Bolivian prison entrepreneurship

Downing, Cristal - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 6 (2012) 4, pp. 339-349

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to fill a gap in research into the small enterprise environment of the Bolivian prison, and to examine that environment and its possible value in prisoner rehabilitation. Design/methodology/approach – To provide a first‐hand analysis of small business...

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