Problems in Creating Boundaryless Treatment Regimens in Secure Correctional Environments: Private Sector–public Agency Infrastructure Compatibility  

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Cowles, Ernest L. ; Dorman, Laura

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Prison Journal vol. 83 no. 3 (Sep. 2003), page 235-256.
Topik: prison drug treatment; partial privatization; juvenile offender organizational conflict
Fulltext: 235TPJ833.pdf (83.04KB)

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This paper examines two identifiable infrastructure dimensions, private and public organizations and treatment and security paradigms, that must be merged for seamless or boundaryless treatment regimens to be operationalized in secure correctional environments. Three infrastructure elements are considered:goals, organizational environments, and organizational levels. Using data collected from a recent process evaluation regarding the implementation of a residential substance abuse treatment programwithin a secure state juvenile correctional institution, it appears that perceptual boundaries were in part established by incongruities between the public sector correctional organization and the private sector treatment provider regarding these infrastructure elements. The findings suggest that the initiation of partial mission privatization in a correctional environment, particularly as it relates to the provision of treatment services in the form of a therapeutic community, is dubious at best.

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