For incapacitation, there is no time like the present: The lagged effects of prisoner reentry on property and violent crime rates

Social Science Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1004-1014

  DeFina, Robert ^a   Hannon, Lance ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercive mobility; Criminogenic; Incarceration; Labeling; Recidivism; Reentry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958479304     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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