Incapacitation: Revisiting an Old Question with a New Method and New Data

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 incarcerat...

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Main Author: Sweeten, Gary (Author)
Contributors: Apel, Robert
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2007
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2007, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 303-326
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