Investigating the impact of custody on reoffending using propensity score matching

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1051-1077

  Jolliffe, Darrick ^a   Hedderman, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incarceration; Propensity score matching; Reoffending; Specific deterrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960402021     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128712466007     Document Type: Article

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