Getting in Sync: State-Local Fiscal Relationships for Public Safety
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 26, 2008
ANNOTATION: The use of state-local partnerships such as community corrections to address public safety challenges is explained. Sections of this brief following an executive summary are: motivation for change; teaming up for success; California led way; what community corrections is; targeting violators; achieving results; juvenile justice as a model; and a worthy option. "Structured carefully, state-fiscal incentives hold great promise for building partnerships that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs" (p. 2).