Four Steps to a Sound Correctional Research and Statistics Program

We cannot properly operate a multimillion-dollar program to rehabilitate offenders unless we have some way to determine whether the money spent in program, personnel, and plant is wisely invested. Indeed, with the tremendous growth and sys tematizing of knowledge in the areas of juvenile delinquency and correction, states have an excellent base for developing useful programs for evaluating their probation, institutional, and parole systems.