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Title: Incapacitation: Revisiting an Old Question with a New Method and New Data
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Sweeten, Gary Apel, Robert John |
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Incapacitation: Revisiting an Old Question with a New Method and New Data Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23,4 (December 2007): 303-326. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/a260178u063702lx/ Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Crime; Incarceration/Jail; Propensity Scores Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to obtain estimates of the number of crimes avoided through incapacitation of individual offenders. Incarcerated individuals are matched to comparable non-incarcerated counterparts using propensity score matching. Propensity scores for incarceration are calculated using a wide variety of time-stable and time-varying confounding variables. We separately analyze juvenile (age 16 or 17) and adult (age 18 or 19) incapacitation effects. Our best estimate is that between 6.2 and 14.1 offenses are prevented per year of juvenile incarceration, and 4.9 to 8.4 offenses are prevented per year of adult incarceration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Quantitative Criminology is the property of Springer Science & Business Media B.V. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts) |
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Sweeten, Gary and Robert John Apel. "Incapacitation: Revisiting an Old Question with a New Method and New Data." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23,4 (December 2007): 303-326.
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