Fostering innovation in community and institutional corrections : identifying high-priority technology and other needs for the U.S. corrections sector / Brian A. Jackson [and others].

By:

Jackson, Brian A, 1972- [author.]

Contributor(s):

National Institute of Justice (U.S.)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Priority Criminal Justice Needs InitiativePublisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 132 pages) : color illustrations, color mapContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780833088871
0833088874
0833088564
9780833088567

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections : Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for the U.S. Corrections Sector.DDC classification:

364.60973 23

LOC classification:

HV9471 .J28 2015eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- The state of corrections today -- Corrections technology and practice today -- From corrections today to corrections tomorrow: identifying needs in community and institutional corrections -- Prioritizing the needs to develop an innovation agenda for corrections -- Conclusions: fostering innovation in corrections -- Appendix A: Corrections advisory panel members -- Appendix B: Corrections advisory panel agenda -- Appendix C: Detailed methodology -- Appendix D: Full list of community corrections needs -- Appendix E: Full list of institutional corrections needs.

Summary: Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with the help of a practitioner Corrections Advisory Panel, seek to map out an innovation agenda for the sector.

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At head of title: Priority Criminal Justice Needs Initiative. A project of the RAND Corporation, the Police Executive Research Forum, RTI International, and the University of Denver.

"Sponsored by the National Institute of Justice."

"RR-820-NIJ"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132).

Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or approaches could improve performance. In this report, RAND researchers, with the help of a practitioner Corrections Advisory Panel, seek to map out an innovation agenda for the sector.