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Governance, Performance, and Capacity Stress

The Chronic Case of Prison Crowding
By:S. Bastow
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137289155
eText ISBN:9781137289162
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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Public policy systems often sustain chronic capacity stress (CCS) meaning they neither excel nor fail in what they do, but do both in ways that are somehow manageable and acceptable. This book is about one archetypal case of CCS – crowding in the British prison system – and how we need a more integrated theoretical understanding of its complexity.