Efficient versus effectiveness: Performance and detachment in prison-based ideological reform—evidence from China
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Published online on March 13, 2026
Abstract
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Rehabilitation often sits in a familiar tension between administrative efficiency and substantive change. Using a case from China—where ideological education is highly standardized, documented, and linked to incentives—this article makes the mechanisms ...
Rehabilitation often sits in a familiar tension between administrative efficiency and substantive change. Using a case from China—where ideological education is highly standardized, documented, and linked to incentives—this article makes the mechanisms ...