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Changing the guard : private prisons and the control of crime / edited by Alexander Tabarrok ; [foreword by Charles H. Logan].

Title
Changing the guard : private prisons and the control of crime / edited by Alexander Tabarrok ; [foreword by Charles H. Logan].
Publication
Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, c2003.

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Additional Authors
Tabarrok, Alexander
Description
xi, 231 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Corrections > Contracting out > United States
  • Prisons > United States
  • Privatization > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Alexander Tabarrok -- The economic of prisons / Kenneth L. Avio -- Correctional privatization in America : an assessment of its historical origins, present status, and future prospects / Charles W. Thomas -- Prison privatization and public policy / Samuel Jan Brakel and Kimberly Ingersoll Gaylord -- Do we want the production of prison services to be more "efficient"? / Bruce L Benson.
ISBN
0945999879
LCCN
^^2002113328
OCLC
52753364
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library