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Lundahl, Brad W.; Kunz, Chelsea; Brownell, Cyndi; Harris, Norma; Van Vleet, Russ – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
Objective: To examine the results of prison privatization. Method: In an effort to provide an empirical base from which decisions about privatization might be made, we conducted a meta-analysis of reports on head-to-head comparisons between an identifiable privately managed and publicly managed prison(s). Results: Our search identified 12 studies.…
Descriptors: Privatization, Correctional Institutions, Economic Impact, Institutionalized Persons
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Saltman, Kenneth – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This article discusses how representations of individual discipline and risk-taking in mass media inform the broader public discourses about public education and the public sector generally. Such representations and narratives about individual discipline and risk-taking often function in mass media as moral imperatives of consumer culture. Such…
Descriptors: Discipline, Public Sector, Politics of Education, Mass Media