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The Effects of Prison Sentences and Intermediate Sanctions on Recidivism: General Effects and Individual Differences

Results from a meta-analysis of 117 studies of recidivism correlates are presented. Sections of this report include: executive summary; introduction; method; results -- more or less time in prison, incarceration vs. community-based, combining incarceration sanctions, age, gender, race, quality of design, risk level, and non-independence of effect sizes; and discussion. The following are a couple of the observations made in this study: greater recidivism rates are associated with longer, not shorter, periods of incarceration; and ". . .there is no cogent theoretical or empirical rationale for criminal justice sanctions to suppress criminal behavior. . ." (p. 15 ). Accession Number: 017677

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