Removing a nail from the boot camp coffin: An outcome evaluation of Minnesota's challenge incarceration program

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 614-643

  Duwe, Grant ^a   Kerschner, Deborah ^a  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boot camps; Correctional program evaluation; Cost benefit analysis; Recidivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049120292     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128707301628     Document Type: Article

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