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Prison Rehabilitation Programs

7 Jan 2021

Once the evaluator has devised an intervention plan, the case is transferred to another agent for the remaining of the sentence and the inmate decides whether or not to follow the initial recommendations. [...] The results are also not sensitive to calculating the fixed follow-up period based on the initial planned released instead of the actual release.11 To meet with the overall consensus, the main results will consider recidivism within three years following release. [...] The advantage of the linear probability model is that it simplifies the presentation of the marginal effects for interaction variables. [...] If they were evaluated, we include a vector of scores for components of the LS/CMI in the regression (si); we set these scores to 0 for individuals not evaluated.14 xi is a vector of other controls, including fixed effects for the sentence year and for the prison, dummy variables for the category of crime, age groups, whether the inmate has dependents, and whether he is part of an indigenous ethni [...] The idea behind her approach is to compare the change in the estimated coefficient to the change in the R2 after adding additional control variables.
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Montreal, QC, CA

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