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'After 40 years of tough on crime policies it has suddenly become fashionable for political leaders to embrace evidence based policies going forward but until we understand how we got here, trust in evidence is an unlikely guide. Tiffany Bergin's rigorous multi-method study of the once promising boot camp model for corrections reveals how culture and politics drove one of the most highly touted but failed crime policies of the 1980s and 1990s.' Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley, USA '... a wide ranging and sometimes surprising account of the rise and fall of correctional boot camps in the United States.' Prison Service Journal

"’After 40 years of tough on crime policies it has suddenly become fashionable for political leaders to embrace ""evidence based"" policies going forward but until we understand how we got here, trust in evidence is an unlikely guide. Tiffany Bergin's rigorous multi-method study of the once promising ""boot camp"" model for corrections reveals how culture and politics drove one of the most highly touted but failed crime policies of the 1980s and 1990s.’ Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley, USA '... a wide ranging and sometimes surprising account of the rise and fall of correctional boot camps in the United States.' Prison Service Journal"

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Tiffany Bergin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University, USA.

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