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Helpful or Harmful? Theorizing Privatized Corrections: Findings from a Qualitative Study
Journal of Crime and Justice ( IF 1.292 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 , DOI: 10.1080/0735648x.2020.1820368
Andrea N. Montes 1 , Skyler J. Morgan 1
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ABSTRACT

The theoretical logic underlying correctional privatization is that private organizations provide comparable or better services more cost-efficiently than governments. This logic and its mechanisms have come primarily from scholarly accounts. This study advances scholarship and policy on privatized corrections by analyzing interviews of people who have observed privatization in practice. The findings suggest that mechanisms that enhance privatization’s effectiveness and efficiency include: bureaucracy that promotes flexibility, budget flexibility that promotes efficiencies, competition that promotes improved corrections, missions that prioritize effectiveness, and high-quality monitoring. Mechanisms contributing to privatization’s ineffectiveness and inefficiencies are bureaucracy that inhibits flexibility, budget flexibility that promotes inefficiencies, lack of competition, goals that do not prioritize effectiveness, and insufficient monitoring. These findings reveal the importance of accounting for the conditions under which corrections, public and private, are implemented.



中文翻译:

有用还是有害?将私有化更正理论化:定性研究的结果

摘要

矫正私有化背后的理论逻辑是,私人组织比政府更经济高效地提供可比或更好的服务。这种逻辑及其机制主要来自学术账户。本研究通过分析在实践中观察到私有化的人的访谈,推进了关于私有化更正的学术和政策。研究结果表明,提高私有化有效性和效率的机制包括:促进灵活性的官僚主义、促进效率的预算灵活性、促进改进纠正的竞争、优先考虑有效性的任务和高质量的监督。导致私有化无效和低效率的机制是抑制灵活性的官僚作风,预算灵活性导致效率低下、缺乏竞争、目标不优先考虑有效性以及监测不足。这些发现揭示了对实施公共和私人更正的条件进行会计处理的重要性。

更新日期:2020-11-20
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