ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how governments engage performance budgeting at the start of the public budgeting ritual, budget development. It explores the creation of performance information, where it appears in budget documentation, and how it is interpreted by budgeters during the development phase. The chapter examines if and how the states of interest there engage performance information for the budget development and specifically in the functional area of juvenile justice. It presents findings about performance budgeting as practiced during this phase of the budget process from our e-survey of state juvenile justice administrators as well as the interviews of those in the selected states with performance budgeting laws. The chapter deals with an assessment of the experiences indicated and expressed regarding the application of performance data for budget development.
