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  • Reentry Initiatives in Indian Country compiled by the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
  • Correctional Boot Camps: Lessons Learned From a Decade of Research (NIJ) (July 2003) (Text or PDF) This NIJ Research for Practice presents findings from 10 years of data analyzing whether boot camps are successful in reducing recidivism, prison populations, and operating costs. The report found that although boot camps generally had positive effects on the attitudes and behaviors of inmates during confinement, these changes did not translate into reduced recidivism. Programs were often too brief to exert a lasting effect on inmates released to the community and they lacked, as well, a strong treatment model or sufficient preparation for reentry into the community. Boot camps' efforts to achieve multiple goals contributed to conflicting results. For example, lengthening camps so that more treatment programs could be included, which reduced recidivism, also shortened the discount in time served and undercut lower prison bed costs.
  • A National Study Comparing the Environments of Boot Camps With Traditional Facilities for Juvenile Offenders (NIJ) (August 2001) (Text or PDF) Compares 27 boot camps with 22 more traditional facilities by measuring components of the institutional environment in each setting and their role in treatment. It also examines the results from site visits, staff surveys, surveys of juveniles given twice to examine changes over time, and structured interviews with facility administrators and finds strong evidence that juveniles and staff each rate boot camps more favorably.
  • Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons (2001) (Text or PDF) Looks at historical factors associated with higher incarceration rates, the privatization movement, and the role played by the private sector in the prison system. The study also considers arguments in support of and in opposition to privatized prisons, reviews the literature on the subject, and looks at issues that could have an impact on future privatization efforts.
  • Addressing Correctional Officer Stress: Programs and Strategies (2001) (Text or PDF) This publication is designed to help correctional administrators develop an effective program to prevent and treat officer stress. Seven diverse case studies showcase effective approaches that administrators can consider adapting.
  • Sex Offender Community Notification: Assessing the Impact in Wisconsin (2000) (Text or PDF) Examines several surveys that measured the perceptions and reactions of law enforcement and probation/parole agencies, communities, and sex offenders on community notification statutes in Wisconsin.
  • Juveniles in Adult Prisons and Jails: A National Assessment (2000) (Text or PDF - Pages 1-45 and Pages 46-127)
  • A Second Look at Alleviating Jail Crowding: A Systems Perspective (2000) (Text or PDF)
  • Juvenile Sex Offender Research Bibliography The authors compiled a bibliography of literature on juvenile male and female sex offenders, and general child growth and development. Because limited information is available on juvenile female sex offenders, the bibliography also includes literature on adult female sex offenders. A comprehensive literature search, which began in the Spring, 1998 and continued through April, 1999, resulted in the collection of 517 bibliographic entries (417 juvenile sex offender entries and 100 general growth and development entries). For more information on Juvenile Sex Offenders Issues.
  • The NCJRS Acquisition List for Corrections contains abstracts to recent acquisitions to one of the nation's largest resources for abstracts to criminal justice and law enforcement research.
  • Report of the Native American Advisory Group on Native American Sentencing Issues, November 4, 2003 Formed in response to concerns that Native American defendants are being treated more harshly by the Federal sentencing system than would be the case if they were prosecuted by their respective States, the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Native American Sentencing Issues was charged by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to "consider any viable methods to improve the operation of the Federal sentencing guidelines in their application to Native Americans under the Major Crimes Act."
  • Assessing Suicide and Risk Behaviors in an Incarcerated American Indian Population: Investigating Culturally Sensitive Risk Assessment Instruments and Procedures in a Border Jail, Final Report. This study determined whether a popular contemporary suicide risk assessment tool is culturally appropriate for use with American Indians admitted into a county jail facility that borders Indian reservations, as well as whether the use of different suicide screening protocols results in a difference in the reliability of detainees' reports of suicide ideation and related risk factors.
  • Juvenile Sex Offender Research Bibliography
  • U.S. Department of Interior, Office of the Inspector General
    • Neither Safe nor Secure: An Assessment of Indian Detention Facilities (TEXT, PDF)
    • Indian Detention Facilities Assessment Video Text (PDF)
    • Indian Jails: A Clarion Call for Reform. Testimony of the Inspector General Before the Senate Finance Committee (TEXT, PDF)
    • Indian Country Detention Facilities Interim Report (TEXT, PDF)



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