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As more US states have taken up justice reinvestment to deal with ballooning corrections populations and the budgetary realities that go with them, justice reinvestment has taken a range of shapes. Cumulatively, these strategies have contributed to a change in the political climate whereby lowering imprisonment rates can be seriously entertained by public officials (Austin et al., 2013: 1). Moreover, according to Gary Dennis of the BJA, JRI initiatives have led to improvements in levels of professionalism within the not-for-profit sector and faith-based organisations as their work gets drawn into a framework involving stronger oversight and evaluation.
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© 2016 David Brown, Chris Cunneen, Melanie Schwartz, Julie Stubbs and Courtney Young
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Brown, D., Cunneen, C., Schwartz, M., Stubbs, J., Young, C. (2016). How Has Justice Reinvestment Worked in the USA?. In: Justice Reinvestment. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137449115_3
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