Estimating the Number of Crimes Averted by Incapacitation: An Information Theoretic Approach

This paper presents an information theoretic approach for estimating the number of crimes averted by incapacitation. It first develops models of the criminal history accumulation process of a sample of prison releasees using their official recorded arrest histories prior to incarceration. The models...

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Main Author: Bhati, Avinash Singh (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2007
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2007, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 355-375
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