TY - JOUR
T1 - Stated and Latent Functions of ISP
AU - Tonry, Michael
PY - 1990/1
Y1 - 1990/1
N2 - The available evidence suggests that intensive supervision probation (ISP) programs do not achieve their stated goals of substantially reducing prison crowding, saving public monies, or reducing recidivism. Many probation officers and departments support ISP enthusiastically, however, and its more punitive features are strictly enforced in many jurisdictions. The proliferation of ISP in the United States in the last decade appears to have had less to do with its stated goals than with its effectiveness at achieving latent bureaucratic, organizational, political, professional, and psychological goals of probation departments and officers.
AB - The available evidence suggests that intensive supervision probation (ISP) programs do not achieve their stated goals of substantially reducing prison crowding, saving public monies, or reducing recidivism. Many probation officers and departments support ISP enthusiastically, however, and its more punitive features are strictly enforced in many jurisdictions. The proliferation of ISP in the United States in the last decade appears to have had less to do with its stated goals than with its effectiveness at achieving latent bureaucratic, organizational, political, professional, and psychological goals of probation departments and officers.
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U2 - 10.1177/0011128790036001012
DO - 10.1177/0011128790036001012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973782989
SN - 0011-1287
VL - 36
SP - 174
EP - 191
JO - Crime & Delinquency
JF - Crime & Delinquency
IS - 1
ER -