Cost Containment: Selected Resources for Criminal Justice Professionals. Annotated Bibliography.

摘要

Across the country, correctional agencies are facing an era of fiscal austerity. They are being tasked with meeting the mission of public safety with reduced resources while maintaining effective operations and the efficient use of public funding. This has now become the new normal. In a 2011 survey of correctional professionals, 98.5% of the respondents indicated that cost containment is a significant or critical concern within their organizations. Ninety-two percent of the respondents indicated that their agency has engaged in targeted cost containment efforts within the past five years. These cost containment efforts were primarily the result of budget constraints due to both short and long-term economic conditions. We believe that this annotated cost containment bibliography will assist the field of corrections in understanding and addressing their specific challenges with cost containment issues.