Abstract
If correctional administrators are to be more effective, they must improve their communication with researchers and thereby with the public. This can be accomplished by (1) compiling postrelease data on offenders, (2) focusing analysis of postrelease data on cost-effectiveness, (3) recognizing economic problems of releasees, (4) employing procedures which enhance prospects of knowing and acting upon the total circumstances and percep tions of offenders, and (5) proposing innovations as piecemeal experiments with efficient evaluation records.
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