Imprisonment Length and Post‐prison Employment Prospects

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ID9680985
AutoresAnke Ramakers (0000-0002-6928-3075, Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology Leiden University, autor correspondente), R Apel (0009-0000-6235-2333, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), P Nieuwbeerta (0000-0001-5134-3175, Institute of Criminology), Anja Dirkzwager (0000-0001-7530-1826, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement), Johan Van Wilsem (0000-0002-9137-7254, Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology Leiden University)
Ano2014
Volume52
Fascículo3
Páginas399-427
Data de publicação2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCriminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-9125.12042
OpenAlexW1875758915
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas34
Referências citadas52

This study considers the relationship between imprisonment length and employment outcomes. The data are a unique prospective, longitudinal study of Dutch pretrial detainees (N = 702). All subjects thus experience prison confinement of varying lengths, although the durations are relatively short (mean = 3.8 months; median = 3.1 months). This contrasts with prior research that was limited to the study of American prison sentences spanning an average of 2 years. These data thus fill a gap in the empirical base concerning short‐term confinement, which is the norm in the United States (e.g., jail incarceration) and other Western countries. Using a comprehensive array of pre‐prison covariates, a propensity score methodology is used to examine the dose–response relationship between imprisonment length and a variety of employment outcomes. The results indicate that, among prison lengths less than 6 months in duration, longer confinement is largely uncorrelated with employment. In contrast, among spells in excess of 6 months, longer imprisonment length seems to worsen employment prospects

Covariate · Criminology · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Imprisonment · Longitudinal data · Norm (philosophy · Panel data · Political science · Prison · Propensity score matching · Sociology · Statistics · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Law · Mathematics · Psychology