RT Article
T1 Alternatives to custody: evidence from police force areas in England and Wales
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 59
IS 4
SP 800
OP 822
A1 Abramovaite, Juste
A2 Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha
A2 Bhattacharya, Samrat
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1668002884
AB England and Wales have some of the highest incarceration rates in the developed world. Recent policy reforms have focused on developing alternatives to custody that offer credible protection for the public, and justice for victims of crime. This article uses unique detailed panel-level data acquired from the Ministry of Justice for all Police Force Areas from 2002 to 2013 in England and Wales to analyse the effects of custodial and non-custodial sentences on recorded crime. Our results suggest that non-custodial sentences can be an effective alternative to custody at reducing property crime but their effect is less consistent for violent crime. This suggests that non-custodial sentences are credible, cost-effective substitutes to incarceration.
K1 Panel data
K1 Incarceration
K1 Community sentences
K1 Sentencing policy
K1 Violent crime
K1 Property crime
K1 Eigentumsdelikte
K1 Inhaftierung
K1 Strafzumessungspraxis
DO 10.1093/bjc/azy056