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The Evidence Enigma - Correctional Boot Camps and Other Failures in Evidence-Based Policymaking (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Evidence Enigma - Correctional Boot Camps and Other Failures in Evidence-Based Policymaking (Paperback, New Ed)
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Why do policymakers sometimes adopt policies that are not supported
by evidence? How can scholars and practitioners encourage
policymakers to listen to research? This book explores these
questions, presenting 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. Both qualitative and quantitative
methods are used to test hypotheses, as the author draws rich
comparisons with other policies, including Drug Abuse Resistance
Education (DARE), abstinence-only sex education programs, and the
electronic monitoring or tagging of offenders in England and Wales.
Presenting important lessons for guarding against the proliferation
of policies that don't work in future, this ground-breaking and
accessible book will be of interest to those working in the fields
of criminology, sociology and social and public policy.
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