RT Article
T1 Banishment: a test of specific deterrence in public housing
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 17
IS 4
SP 911
OP 937
A1 Torres, Jose A.
A2 Apkarian, Jacob
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1586372610
AB We test the degree to which a public housing banishment policy specifically deters overall drug and violent offenses in public housing using a stratified sample of 345 individuals, banned between 2004 and 2012, in one public housing authority (PHA). We find that individual offending (trespass, drug, violent, gun, and property offenses) in public housing increases after being banned. Increases in trespass offenses, specifically for male offenders with limited history of offending prior to being banned, primarily explain the increases. Being banned, however, significantly reduced drug and violent offending for individuals with histories of drug and violent offending in public housing. These individuals were arrested when they were banned, which suggests to us that bans alone may not reduce drug and violent offending.
K1 Crime prevention
K1 Deterrence
K1 Banishment
K1 Public housing
K1 Policing
K1 Abschreckung
K1 Sozialer Wohnungsbau
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12399