Friday, August 05, 2005

Long prison sentences have minimal effects on young criminals / [USA] U of M News Service, 4 Aug 2005

http://www.umich.edu/news/?Releases/2005/Aug05/r080405a
"The study uses data from all felony arrests from 1995 to 2002 in Florida, where the criminal age of the majority is 18. Both researchers emphasized the importance of the paper's methodology for answering how responsive individuals are to prison length."
Report - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11491