e points for use in the assessment of the findings and conclusions reported by the authors in this article.
The purpose section of this article explains that the authors report the findings and conclusions of two separate, but related, studies in this article. The authors explain that they set out to examine the adjustment of offenders during the community supervision phase of the shock program, which is the term used by the authors to characterize a "boot camp" prison program, in the first study, while, in the second study they assessed the characteristics of the prisoners who completed both the shock incarceration and the community supervision phases of a shock program. This information is useful to the reader, because the authors discuss implications drawn from a comparison of the results of the two studies.
The section devoted to Study 1 in the article discusses the study in the context of method, and results and discussion. These two subsections are critiqued separately.
The authors describe the sample population, and explain that the sample population was divided into four groups (1) shock incarceration graduates, (2) shock incarceration dropouts, (3) probationers, and (4) parolees. The findings of Stud
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