Revisiting incapacitation: Can we generate new estimates?

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 259-265

  Reuter, Peter ^a   Bushway, Shawn D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Incapacitation; Natural experiments; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348913159     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-007-9029-z     Document Type: Article

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