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Private Versus Public Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Do Differences in Environmental Quality Exist?
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This paper examined data collected from 48 residential juvenile correctional facilities in 19 states (16 private and 32 public facilities) and found that no significant differences between private and public facilities in environmental quality existed.Abstract:
Expansion in the operation of private sector correctional facilities has sparked a number of debates. A primary concern is that environmental quality for offenders incarcerated in privately operated facilities will be poorer than publicly operated facilities due to the profit motivation of the private sector. This study examined data collected from 48 residential juvenile correctional facilities in 19 states (16 private and 32 public facilities). Self-report surveys, including cognitive assessments of 13 conditions of confinement, were administered to juvenile delinquents (N = 4,121) incarcerated in these facilities. Data from facility records were also incorporated in the analysis. A hierarchical linear model analysis of the juveniles' cognitive assessments indicated that no significant differences between private and public facilities in environmental quality existed.read more
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The Correctional Experiences of Youth in Adult and Juvenile Prisons
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Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests.
TL;DR: In this paper, a general formula (α) of which a special case is the Kuder-Richardson coefficient of equivalence is shown to be the mean of all split-half coefficients resulting from different splittings of a test, therefore an estimate of the correlation between two random samples of items from a universe of items like those in the test.
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Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
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