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A Public Administration Headache: An Evaluation Analysis of Prison Policy and Recidivism Toward Social Reintegration

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  • Jaime R. S. Fonseca

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We focus on discovering, describing, and understanding prison recidivism; secondly, we intend to know if the prison policy contributes to deterrence of crime; thirdly, we want to know if prison labor and vocational education and training influence the rate of prison recidivism by increasing social reintegration or decreasing prison recidivism. We use a sample of n = 1643 prisoners, multivariate clustering methods, focusing on latent class models, to trace the profile of prisoners, and we use the chi-square test to test dependence/independence of some variable pairs. Data support the heterogeneity of inmates, resulting in two clusters, recidivists (50%), and nonrecidivists.

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  • Jaime R. S. Fonseca, 2015. "A Public Administration Headache: An Evaluation Analysis of Prison Policy and Recidivism Toward Social Reintegration," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(10), pages 701-711, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:38:y:2015:i:10:p:701-711
    DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2014.955197
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