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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2015
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2015, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 537-563 |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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