Correctional Boot Camps

This paper will focus on design issues relative to including women in boot camps and is not intended as a research report of boot camp programs for women. Excellent studies are available from several sources, most recently in Correctional Boot Camps: A Tough Intermediate Sanction, edited by Dr. Doris Laton MacKenzie and Eugene E. Hebert (NIJ, 1996). One of the studies included in that National Institute of Justice Research Report, is "Boot Camps as an Alternative for Women" In March of 1992, Dr. MacKenzie headed a research team of four women who examined the involvement of women in boot camps. They conducted a survey of boot camp programs in the country and found that at that time, 13 of 25 states included women in boot camp programs. …