A Feasibility Study on Outsourcing the Skill TrainingCourses in the Correctional Institutions：The Case ofTaipei Detention Center

• Main Authors: Chiu-Jung Chen, 陳秋蓉
• Other Authors: Mei-Jen Hung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7scjj9

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 105 === In recent years, “Public and Private Partnership”has been a trendy topic. Under the thinking of New Public Management, the government takes actions and seeks external resources by expanding private participation for the improvements of decision-making process and service quality of public sector. As for the Ministry of Justice, in order to reduce the recidivism rate, it promotes skill training by combining resources from all parties in society, aiming at helping the inmates to cultivate and obtain specialized proficiency for the employability after their departure from prison, is one of the ultimate goals to chase in correctional reformation policy over the years. In view of the fact that skill training in our country is inefficient, scholars have proposed suggestion to enhance training effectiveness by “outsourcing”skill training work. Therefore, it is worthwhile to explore whether widening the scale of skill training programs through outsourcing, letting more inmates receive training courses that accord with the demand of employment market and of high practicability really contributes to ease the current predicament caused by prisons organizing skill training programs on their own. This paper takes Taipei Detention Center as the studying case, elaborating present situation towards mplementation of skill training programs in Taiwan’s correctional institutions and Taipei Detention Center, plus, introducing the outsourcing condition executed by other foreign skill training institutes (UNICOR and SCORE).By conducting in-depth interviews with different perspectives from interviewees, the study sorts out existing problems and difficulties, and then analyses various feasibility concerning several aspects when souring out skill training, including marketing, management, financing, administrative regulations, laws, and overall dimensions. Hence, readers can have better understanding of all pros and cons that may brought by outsourcing. In the end, several policy-relating suggestions are concluded as references for future out-sourced skill training implementation.