From optimistic policies to pessimistic outcomes: Why won’t boot camps either succeed pragmatically or succumb politically?

Rehabilitation Issues, Problems, and Prospects in Boot Camp

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-52

  Stinchcomb, Jeanne B ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boot camps; Correctional Policies; Outcomes and prospects; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917023188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J076v40n03_02     Document Type: Chapter

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