RT Article
T1 The effectiveness of prison for reducing drug offender recidivism: a regression discontinuity analysis
JF Journal of experimental criminology
VO 13
IS 1
SP 1
OP 27
A1 Mitchell, Ojmarrh
A2 Mears, Daniel P. 1966-
A2 Cochran, Joshua C.
A2 Bales, William D.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747976008
AB An enduring legacy of the 1980s “war on drugs” is the increased use of imprisonment for drug offenders. Advocates anticipated, in part, that prison is more effective than community sanctions in reducing recidivism. Despite the contribution of drug offender incarceration to prison growth nationally, and debates about whether this approach should be curtailed, only limited rigorous research exists that evaluates the effect of imprisonment on drug offender recidivism. To address this gap, this paper uses sentencing and recidivism data from a cohort of individuals convicted of felony drug offenses in Florida to examine the effect of imprisonment—as compared to community sanctions—on recidivism.
K1 Drug crime
K1 Prison
K1 Recidivism
K1 Specific deterrence
K1 Regression discontinuity design
DO 10.1007/s11292-017-9282-6