RT Article
T1 Incapacitation: Revisiting an Old Question with a New Method and New Data
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 23
IS 4
SP 303
OP 326
A1 Sweeten, Gary
A2 Apel, Robert
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764280067
AB We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to obtain estimates of the number of crimes avoided through incapacitation of individual offenders. Incarcerated individuals are matched to comparable non-incarcerated counterparts using propensity score matching. Propensity scores for incarceration are calculated using a wide variety of time-stable and time-varying confounding variables. We separately analyze juvenile (age 16 or 17) and adult (age 18 or 19) incapacitation effects. Our best estimate is that between 6.2 and 14.1 offenses are prevented per year of juvenile incarceration, and 4.9 to 8.4 offenses are prevented per year of adult incarceration.
K1 Prison
K1 juvenile justice
K1 propensity score matching
K1 Incarceration
K1 Incapacitation
DO 10.1007/s10940-007-9032-4