Serving time or serving the community?: exploiting a policy reform to assess the causal effects of community service on income, social benefit dependency and recidivism

Objectives There is a widespread belief among criminologists, judges and the like that criminals are better off serving non-custodial sentences instead of going to prison. However, empirical evidence of the effects of such other types of sentences is scarce. To help fill the gap, this paper assesses...

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Main Author: Andersen, Signe Hald (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2015, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 537-563
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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