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'Rewarding Results: Measuring and Incentivizing Performance in Corrections'

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Marc Levin from the Texas Public Policy Foundation has a new report out titled "Rewarding Results: Measuring and Incentivizing Performance in Corrections" (pdf, August 2010). Here's an excerpt from the executive summary:In corrections, there is a strong public interest in producing the greatest reduction in crime?particularly the most serious crimes?for every dollar spent. Conversely, the criminal justice system should cost-effectively maximize positive outcomes such as victim restitution, victim satisfaction, and the employment of offenders as productive citizens.It is often said that, if you don?t measure something, you won?t affect it. Similarly, if one incentivizes certain results, it may increase the odds of achieving those outcomes. Indeed, the two principles are linked?measuring performance is a prerequisite for developing a system of incentives, since there must be an ongoing, reliable means of determining whether the desired outcomes are beingachieved...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 20, 2010 (boomark / email).