An Outcome Evaluation of Pennsylvania's Boot Camp: Does Rehabilitative Programming within a Disciplinary Setting Reduce Recidivism?

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 581-602

  Kempinen, Cynthia A ^a,b   Kurlychek, Megan C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania Commn on Sentencing   (United States)

Author keywords

Boot camp; Corrections; Pennsylvania rehabilitation; Recidivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141819082     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128703252664     Document Type: Review

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