NCJ Number
103154
Journal
Crime and Delinquency Volume: 32 Issue: 4 Dated: (October 1986) Pages: 503-514
Date Published
1986
Length
12 pages
Annotation
There are two general questions to be asked about research evaluation reports of the kind presented in 'Using Early Release to Relieve Prison Crowding.'
Abstract
The first is, 'What are the specific findings and how adequate was the methodology by which they were obtained?' The second, larger query centers on the significance of the results. The latter question is concerned with the policy implications that ought to be drawn from the research. Although I want to touch upon both these matters in this relatively brief commentary, it is to the second question that most of my remarks speak. (Author abstract)