Research Catalog

Title

Selective incapacitation revisited : why the high-rate offenders are hard to predict / Peter W. Greenwood, Susan Turner.

Author

Greenwood, Peter W.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [1987].

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Additional Authors

• National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation
• Turner, Susan, 1954-

Description

xviii, 52 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This is a final report of a project designed to explore the relationship between (1) self-reports of offenses and (2) recorded arrests as indicators of individual offense rates. The findings suggest that high-rate offenders cannot be accurately identified, either prospectively or retrospectively, on the basis of their arrest rates alone. More effort must be devoted to checking on the reliability of and resolving inconsistencies in the information provided by individual respondents. Unless it is possible to identify some specific characteristics of high-rate offenders or their recorded offenses that can distinguish their expected probability of arrest from the average experienced by all offenders, individual arrest rates will remain a poor predictor of individual offense rates within a chronic offender population.

Series Statement

The Rand publication series ; R-3397-NIJ

Uniform Title

Rand ; R-3397-NIJ.

Subject

• Crime > United States
• Imprisonment > United States
• Prison sentences > United States

Genre/Form

Longitudinal studies

Note

• "March 1987."
• "Prepared for the National Institute of Jusitce, U.S. Department of Justice."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 51-52.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833007822 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

15081850

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library