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This publication explores California’s felony approach within the context of vocational schooling reform. For prisons within the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based administration intended that reform efforts to alter the aim of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation via vocational schooling required “evidence” to justify coverage prescriptions. but who determines what constitutes facts? In political environments, ideas are usually pre-conceived, because of this the character of the proof accrued can also be preconceived. therefore, key assumptions approximately results are frequently wanted away to teach development and be dependable. via a close research interspersed with tales from the authors’ studies “behind the wall” between California’s legal inhabitants, the authors problem the character of evidence-based examine as utilized in the criminal setting. within the strategy they describe the thorny difficulties dealing with reformers.
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AND WATERS, T. These logical problems relate to common assumptions underlying our rehabilitation programs. In the parenting programs, there was an assumption that a 12-week course given to 17- to 19-year-old delinquents would have a measurable effect on broad dependent variables such as recidivism and parenting styles. Similarly it was assumed that the prison-based vocational education programs described in this book would solve the social, psychological, and disciplinary issues, as well as alter the habits prisoners brought with them from the outside.
This question was developed in the context of the simultaneous assessments of the CDCR programs undertaken by the Expert Panel (2007) which focused on reorienting the CDCR’s programs toward rehabilitation and evidence-based models of programming. THE NEED FOR PROGRAM EVALUATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGES IN PROGRAM GOALS By 2008, the Legislature, the governor’s office, and the CDCR had created an elaborate justification and philosophy for rehabilitating inmates to please a range of constituencies who contributed to crafting the program.