Imprisonment and Reoffending

Nagin, Daniel S.; Cullen, Francis T.; Jonson, Cheryl Lero

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“…The program conditions and content are of great importance when comparing custodial and non-custodial sanctions, because they define the fundamental characteristics of the comparison, and thus the generalizability of the findings (Mears et al 2015;Nagin et al 2009). I compare participants in the EM-program who are treated with all of the different program elements (described above) to offenders serving their sentence in prison.…”

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“…Thus, I combine multiple administrative registers to include a wide range of different control variables on demography, type of sentence, crime and educational history. The first three types of variables are included with reference to prior research that enhanced the importance of including information on conviction offense type, criminal history and demography (age, sex and race) in studies comparing different forms of sanctions (Nagin et al 2009). In addition to these classical covariates in criminological studies, I also include information on the offenders' prior educational attainment to ensure that the treatment and control groups do not differ substantially pre-treatment in observables linked to the outcome measure.…”

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“…The theories on deterrence argue that the severity of punishment affects the offenders' subsequent criminal behavior, because the experience of imprisonment changes the offenders' perception of sanctions (e.g., Becker 1968; see reviews of deterrence studies: Nagin 1998Nagin , 2013Nagin et al 2009). Hence, the deterrence perspective would predict higher reoffending rates among offenders serving with EM, compared to offenders serving time in prison.…”

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“…In the Danish context, however, about 80 percent of the offenders rated electronic monitoring as less severe than prison, when asked in a questionnaire after the EM-program (Jørgensen 2011). 2 Previous reviews on imprisonment and reoffending document, that the empirical evidence of deterrent effects of imprisonment is non-conclusive (Mears et al 2015;Nagin et al 2009). This picture is also reflected in recent studies addressing selection issues and yet identifying diverse results: Bales and Piquero (2012) and Cochran et al (2014) find higher risk of recidivism among imprisoned offenders compared to offenders e.g., on probation, whereas Kuziemko (2013) shows that the length of imprisonment lowers the risk of recidivism, and Nagin and Snodgrass (2013) find little evidence that incarceration has an impact on rearrests.…”

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Educational Outcomes After Serving with Electronic Monitoring: Results from a Natural Experiment

Larsen

2016

J Quant Criminol

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Objectives The paper explores the effects of electronic monitoring (EM) on young offenders' educational outcomes and contributes to the evaluation of EM as a non-custodial sanction with a new outcome measure. MethodsThe study is based on a natural experiment exploiting a reform in Denmark in 2006 introducing electronic monitoring to all offenders under the age of 25 with a maximum prison sentence of 3 months. Information on program participation is used to estimate instrument variable models in order to assess the causal effects of EM on young offenders' educational outcomes. The empirical analyses are based on a comprehensive longitudinal dataset (n = 1013) constructed from multiple official administrative registers and including a high number of covariates.Results The EM-program increases the completion rates of upper secondary education by 18 % points among program participants 3 years post-release. The EM-program includes house arrest under electronic surveillance, labor market or education participation, unannounced drug and alcohol tests and a crime preventive program. It is not possible to separate the treatment effects of the different program elements in the empirical analyses.

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2016

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“…Aside from the monetary concerns associated with expanded imprisonment, there is a pressing need to study the effect of imprisonment at the individual-level. Unfortunately, there are too few examples of methodologically rigorous studies examining this individual-level effect, and whether sanctions deter, exacerbate, or have no effect on crime (Bhati and Piquero 2008;Nagin et al 2009). Combining these two policy issues further strengthens the need for cost-benefit analysis of the societal and human costs of offending as well as the system's reactions to it (Cohen et al 2010c).…”

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Invited Address: James Joyce, Alice in Wonderland, the Rolling Stones, and Criminal Careers

Piquero

2011

J Youth Adolescence

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The study of criminal careers generally, and patterns of continuity and change in criminal offending in particular, has been a long-standing interest to social scientists across many disciplines. This article provides readers with an overview of this line of research. After an introduction to the criminal career perspective, the article presents several 'facts' that have emerged from criminal career studies. This material segues into a discussion of theories based on criminal careers research as well as a related discussion of the emerging methods and trends in the area. The article closes with some observations about public policy with respect to criminal careers knowledge and identifies some neglected research needs. A key summary conclusion is that the processes associated with continuity and change are not mutually exclusive, but instead are important and complimentary aspects of criminal careers research.

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Prisons for Juveniles

Naples¹

2013

The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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The nature of juvenile corrections has changed over the course of different eras in juvenile justice. Juvenile correctional facilities (prisons for juveniles) represent the most restrictive type of placement in the juvenile justice system. Security of the juvenile correctional facility and its staff and residents is a primary concern. Youth placed in juvenile correctional facilities are not representative of the general population of youth, with boys and minority youth (particularly African American youth) confined at disproportionate rates. Despite constitutional rights to reasonable safety, adequate medical and mental health care, rehabilitative treatment, and education for youth in confinement, juvenile correctional facilities vary widely in terms of the quality and extent of services and programming offered. States differ in terms of how placement, commitment length, and release decisions are made. Recent trends in juvenile corrections include moving away from large, congregate facilities in favor of small, regional facilities, and an emphasis on the adoption of evidence‐based practices, which research has shown to be effective in reducing offending.

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Imprisonment and Reoffending

Cited by 486 publications

References 101 publications

Educational Outcomes After Serving with Electronic Monitoring: Results from a Natural Experiment

Educational Outcomes After Serving with Electronic Monitoring: Results from a Natural Experiment

Invited Address: James Joyce, Alice in Wonderland, the Rolling Stones, and Criminal Careers

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