Ruminating about boot camps: Panaceas, paradoxes, and ideology

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 199-207

  Finckenauer, James O ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence; Hoot camps; Ideology; Policy implications; Scared Straight; Shock prisonization

Indexed keywords

EID: 32444431724     PISSN: 10509674     EISSN: 15408558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v40n03_10     Document Type: Review

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