An Outcome Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s Boot Camp: Does Rehabilitation Programming within a Disciplinary Setting Reduce Recidivism?

Were any causal assertions made or implied in the hypotheses or in subsequent discussion? What approach was used to demonstrate the existence of causal effects? Were all 3 issues in establishing causal relationships addressed (temporal order, correlation, removing rival causal factors)? What, if any, variables were controlled in the analysis to reduce the risk of spurious relationships and rival causal factors?