Criminal justice expenditures in forty-eight American states for the 1948 to 1985 period are examined through the lens of three alternative models: public choice, insurgency and economic structuralism. Chapter one discusses the framework through which self-titled "government growth" studies address government expenditure increases and provides alternative perspectives for understanding government growth and contraction. Chapter two provides the theoretical groundwork for the three alternative models of criminal justice expenditures. Chapters three and four describe, justify and operationalize respective model determinants of criminal justice expenditures. Chapters five through seven test the relative strength of each determinant for three component series of criminal justice expenditures: police, corrections and judicial expenditures, respectively. / Finally, chapter eight reviews the most interesting findings of earlier chapters and discusses the significance of the dissertation for future government growth research and its relevance to teaching and research in public administration. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-08, Section: A, page: 3067. / Major Professor: Barton Wechsler. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76464 |
| Contributors | Cable, Gregory Eric., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 251 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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