SERVING TIME OR SERV.THE COMMU: Exploiting a Policy Reform to Assess the Causal Effects of Community Service on Income, Social Benefit Dependency & ... Foundation Research Unit Study Paper) - Softcover

ANDERSEN S.H.

 
9788790199630: SERVING TIME OR SERV.THE COMMU: Exploiting a Policy Reform to Assess the Causal Effects of Community Service on Income, Social Benefit Dependency & ... Foundation Research Unit Study Paper)

Synopsis

There is a widespread belief among criminologists, judges and the like that criminals are better off serving non-custodial sentences instead of going to prison. However, empirical evidence of the effects of community service is scarce. This paper exploits a policy reform that implemented the use of community service as punishment among specific groups of criminals in order to assess the causal effect of community service on post-sentence income, dependency on social benefits, and crime.

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