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One of the current issues in punishment and corrections is the privatization of confinement facilities (prisons and jails). Because private, for-profit correctional companies try to achieve maximum efficiency in filling beds to ensure profits, they are likely to use the transfer of prisoners from one jurisdiction to another more often than do public agencies. In many cases, this may occur without the agreement or the knowledge of government authorities, local officials, and citizens. This article reviews some of the legal and practical issues involved with transfer policies and looks into some of the recent cases of interjurisdictional transfers by private corrections companies and their implications for prisoners, their families, government authorities, monitors, and host communities.

This article focuses on some of the theoretical and practical issues involved with public proprietary correctional facilities as compared to private proprietary facilities as they are operated in California. Questions are raised about whose interests are served by public proprietary facilities and what some of the problems are. The California experience with contracting for public proprietary facilities is analyzed based on an audit done by the State Controller's Office that showed expenditures viewed as outside contract agreements. Six public proprietary facilities are in court with the California Department of Corrections to retain these funds. It appears that the process for contracting with public proprietary facilities in California was flawed. The fact that the experiment with public proprietary facilities in California had some problems may contain some lessons for the future operation of both public and private proprietary operations.

This study evaluates deviance among academicians in university settings. A typology is suggested which includes two dimensions and delineates four basic types of academic deviance. The relationship of these types to university and disciplinary organization is offered as the sources of academic deviance are explained.

ABSTRACT* * *Journals in criminology and criminal justice have been ranked using subjective techniques to assess journal presitige as well as objective measures intended to assess journal eminence. Two recent studies have resulted in somewhat similar rankings of professional journals although each used distinct methods of data analysis and asked different research questions. This finding suggests that there is a consensus among professionals in the field concerning the importance of particular journals.