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CONTROLLING RISK INSIDE MODERN GOVERNMENT: DEVELOPING INTERVAL MEASURES OF THE GRID‐GROUP DIMENSIONS FOR ASSESSING SUICIDE RISK CONTROL SYSTEMS IN THE ENGLISH AND JAPANESE PRISON SERVICES
Author(s) -
NAKAMURA AYAKO
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/padm.12265
Subject(s) - fatalism , prison , government (linguistics) , control (management) , grid , set (abstract data type) , interval (graph theory) , psychology , computer science , criminology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , theology , combinatorics , programming language
Mechanisms for controlling government organizations have attracted major interest from public administration researchers. Cultural theory has been used as a tool to identify the core control approaches of individual organizations. Whereas major existing studies have applied the theory based on the cultural types using nominal‐level measures, this article builds a novel set of interval measures, focusing on two fundamental factors of government control proposed by cultural theory: grid‐group dimensions. The measures are applied to assess suicide risk control systems in the English ( HMPS ) and Japanese prison services ( JPS ). The results highlight the fatalistic approach in HMPS and egalitarian approach in JPS , as well as demonstrating the structural characteristics of each risk control system beyond nominal lists of control tools.