NCJ Number
93929
Journal
Brooklyn Law Review Volume: 50 Issue: 1 Dated: (1983) Pages: 53-76
Date Published
1983
Length
24 pages
Annotation
This article applies five models of policy evaluation to five fields of criminal justice policy to demonstrate that methods associated with management science, operations research, economic reasoning, and decision sciences are relevant to the development of effective, efficient, and equitable criminal justice policy.
Abstract
The five illustrative pairs are (1) crime reduction policy illustrated by probabilistic benefit analysis; (2) police policy, illustrated by nonprobabilistic benefit-cost analysis; (3) court policy, illustrated by time-optimizing models; (4) corrections policy, illustrated by optimum level analysis; and (5) allocation policy, illustrated by optimum mix analysis. Graphs, charts, and 42 footnotes. (Author summary modified)