29 For Mr Thomas Cotes, At Hull

Marvell, Andrew

doi:10.1093/oseo/instance.00024667

Cited by 3 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In addition to the case studies of individual states, several broader studies of sentencing guidelines conclude that the Minnesota and Washington laws reduced prison populations (Alschuler, 1991:934935;Marvell, 1995;Tonry, 1991:311-312). Savelsberg (1992:1373), on the other hand, argues 5.…”

Section: Research On the Impact Of The Lawsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Determinate Sentencing and Abolishing Parole: The Long‐term Impacts on Prisons and Crime*

Marvell¹,

Moody

1996

Criminology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We estimate the impact of determinate sentencing laws (DSLs) on prison commitments, prison populations, and Uniform Crime Report crime rates. Ten states enacted these laws between 1976 and 1984; all abolished parole and most established presumptive sentences. The research uses a multiple time‐series design that, among other benefits, controls for national trends and facilitates the use of control variables. We found that DSLs are clearly associated with prison population growth in only one state, Indiana, and with major reductions in two, Minnesota and Washington. The remaining laws show no evidence of increasing populations and may have reduced them somewhat. The estimated impacts on commitments are similarly varied. There is little or no evidence that DSLs affect crime. Earlier studies evaluating individual DSLs are often criticized for poor research designs, and our findings support the criticisms.

show abstract

Section: Research On the Impact Of The Lawsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…11. We do not enter crime in the prison population regression because it apparently has little impact on prison populations (Langan, 1991;Marvell and Moody, 1994), and entering the variable might introduce simultaneity problems due to the incapacitation effect of prison populations (Marvell andMoody, 1994 Spelman, 1994).…”

Section: Estimated Impact On Prisonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinate Sentencing and Abolishing Parole: The Long‐term Impacts on Prisons and Crime*

Marvell¹,

Moody

1996

Criminology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…John Lott and his colleagues typically find the largest reductions in violent crimes (Bronars and Lott, 1998;Lott 1998aLott , 1998bLott , 2000Lott and Mustard, 1997;Plassmann and Whitley, 2003;Plassmann and Tideman, 2001). Several others find modest reductions (Duggan, 2001;Harrison et al, 2000;Marvell, 1999;Moody, 2001;Olson and Maltz, 2001). Still others find at most slight reductions (Bartley and Cohen, 1998;Black and Nagin, 1998;Dezhbakhsh and Rubin, 1998;Marvell, 2001).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several others find modest reductions (Duggan, 2001;Harrison et al, 2000;Marvell, 1999;Moody, 2001;Olson and Maltz, 2001). Still others find at most slight reductions (Bartley and Cohen, 1998;Black and Nagin, 1998;Dezhbakhsh and Rubin, 1998;Marvell, 2001). Finally, a few suggest no impacts or even increases in violent crime (Ayres andDonohue, 1999,2003a;Donohue, 2003;Kleck and Kovandzic, 2001;Ludwig, 1998;McDowall et al, 1995).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other problems include the following: (1) Almost all researchers use incorrect dates for many of the state RTC laws (see, Marvell, 1999: Ayres and Donohue, 2003a. (2) The county-level crime data used by Lott and Mustard and others are unreliable in some states due to the incomplete crime reporting and inadequate attempts to impute missing data (see Lott andWhitley, 2002: Maltz andTargonski, 2002;Marvell, 1999). This problem is especially damaging for arrests, which Lott and Mustard use as a control variable.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation