Monetary costs and benefits of correctional treatment programs: Implications for offender reentry

Federal Probation

Volumn 68, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 9-13

  Welsh, Brandon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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