Criminal Justice Reform, Monetary Incentives, and Policy Evaluation*
作者:
MILTON HEUMANN,
THOMAS W. CHURCH,
期刊:
Law&Policy
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 1
页码: 81-102
ISSN:0265-8240
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9930.1990.tb00042.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Innovation in criminal justice frequently fails, or is perceived as having failed. In this paper we look at a highly imaginative, quintessential 1980's innovation–the use of financial incentives to encourage prosecutors to process more quickly their oldest cases and their cases involving defendants incarcerated pre‐trial. Measured by conventional “bottom line” criteria the incentive scheme can be labeled a failure. But measured both by the limited actual success at least one office achieved, and by the general effectiveness of the incentives as motivators for three out of the four offices studied, a somewhat more positive assessment of the efficacy of incentives can be fa
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