Effects of Incarceration on Criminal Trajectories in the United States, 1994
Description
Using data from RECIDIVISM OF PRISONERS RELEASED IN 1994:
[UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 3355), this study developed an analytical
approach to utilize detailed dated criminal arrest history information
in order to investigate whether, and to what extent, incarceration is
able to deter offenders from future offending. This data collection
consists of the syntax for a SAS macro used to estimate individual
specific offending micro-trajectories, project counterfactual
trajectories, and to assess the actual post-release offending patterns
against the backdrop of these counterfactuals. The arrest records of
individuals were clustered in chronological order and were truncated
after the first post-release re-arrest event. The key independent
variables used in estimating the pre-release criminal history
accumulation process included the arrest number, the age at first
arrest, whether or not the individual was confined as a result of the
previous arrest event, and a measure of the number of years taken to
reach each arrest event cumulated through the last arrest event. The
same set of basic variables were used to model first re-arrest after
release (recidivism).
Resources
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Format |
Description |
Link |
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ICPSR04578.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04578.v1 |
Tags
- recidivism
- conviction-records
- arrest-records
- criminal-histories