RT Article
T1 A test of the stability of punishment hypothesis: The Dutch case
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 8
IS 1
SP 133
OP 151
A1 Fiselier, Jan P. S.
LA English
YR 1992
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764277732
AB This paper tests the hypothesis of the stability of punishment as developed by Blumstein and his associates against Dutch prison data. After summarizing the existing empirical evidence, Dutch prison data are presented pertaining to the average daily population in penal institutions, on the one hand, and the number of admissions in these institutions, on the other hand. In three ways it is tested whether these data do support the hypothesis: regression analysis, Box-Jenkins analysis, and the analysis of a few dynamic models as presented by Berk et al. (1981). The paper ends with discussing Blumstein's hypothesis and considers the way research into the extent of the prison population should be continued.
K1 error correction models
K1 Time-series analysis
K1 Crime and Punishment
K1 punishment stability
DO 10.1007/BF01062763