The effectiveness of prison for reducing drug offender recidivism: a regression discontinuity analysis
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,...
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| Language: | English |
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2017
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Journal of experimental criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27 |
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