Using Cost-Benefit Analysis To Evaluate Correctional Sentences.

Gray, Tara; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ432019

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Using Cost-Benefit Analysis To Evaluate Correctional Sentences.

Gray, Tara; And Others

Evaluation Review, v15 n4 p471-81 Aug 1991

Two studies of the cost-benefit analysis of correctional sentences are reviewed, which present conflicting results. Although such analysis has not determined a way to implement the selective incapacitation of criminals, it has identified the critical determinants of the decision to sentence criminals to prison or probation. (SLD)

Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Cost Effectiveness, Court Judges, Court Litigation, Criminals, Research Problems, Sentencing

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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