RT Article
T1 A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Impact of Public Assistance on Prisoner Recidivism
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 34
IS 3
SP 741
OP 773
A1 Luallen, Jeremy
A2 Edgerton, Jared F.
A2 Rabideau, Deirdre
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1689179414
AB The Welfare Act of 1996 banned welfare and food stamp eligibility for felony drug offenders and gave states the ability to modify their use of the law. Today, many states are revisiting their use of this ban, searching for ways to decrease the size of their prison populations; however, there are no empirical assessments of how this ban has affected prison populations and recidivism among drug offenders. Moreover, there are no causal investigations whatsoever to demonstrate whether welfare or food stamp benefits impact recidivism at all.
K1 Recidivism
K1 Prison
K1 Ban
K1 Drugs
K1 Food stamps
K1 Welfare
DO 10.1007/s10940-017-9353-x