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020			_a9780511794858 (ebook)
020			_z9780521762465 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aHV6025 _b.M376 2010
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100	1		_aMears, Daniel P., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAmerican Criminal Justice Policy : _bAn Evaluation Approach to Increasing Accountability and Effectiveness / _cDaniel P. Mears.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (334 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aAmerican Criminal Justice Policy examines many of the most prominent criminal justice policies on the American landscape and finds that they fall well short of achieving the accountability and effectiveness that policymakers have advocated and that the public expects. The policies include mass incarceration, sex offender laws, supermax prisons, faith-based prisoner reentry programs, transfer of juveniles to adult court, domestic violence mandatory arrest laws, drug courts, gun laws, community policing, private prisons, and others. Optimistically, Daniel P. Mears argues that this situation can be changed through systematic incorporation of evaluation research into policy development, monitoring, and assessment. To this end, the book provides a clear and accessible discussion of five types of evaluation - needs, theory, implementation or process, outcome and impact, and cost-efficiency. It identifies how these can be used both to hold the criminal justice system accountable and to increase the effectiveness of crime control and crime prevention efforts.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521762465
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794858
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38401 _d38401