Does the time cause the crime? an examination of the relationship between time served and reoffending in the netherlands

Criminology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1149-1194

  Snodgrass, G Matthew ^a   Blokland, Arjan A J ^b   Haviland, Amelia ^a   Nieuwbeerta, Paul ^c   Nagin, Daniel S ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corrections; Incarceration; Matching with doses; Optimal nonbipartite matching; Time served

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455212403     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00254.x     Document Type: Article

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