Does Community Service Rehabilitate better than Short-term Imprisonment?: Results of a Controlled Experiment

By M. Killias, M. Aebi, D. Ribeaud. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. David P. Farrington
2. Arjan A. J. Blokland
3. Dan Nagin
4. Paul Nieuwbeerta
5. F. Cullen
6. J. Murray
7. I. Sekol
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. Paul Nieuwbeerta
2. Arjan A. J. Blokland
3. Alex R. Piquero
4. David P. Farrington
5. Dan Nagin
6. F. Cullen
7. J. Murray
8. I. Sekol

Citations in the corpus

• Comparing the effects of community service and short-term imprisonment on recidivism: a matched samples approach (2010, methodology): “4 The first experimental study (Killias et al. 2000), which was conducted in Switzerland, compared recidivism rates after community service to that after imprisonment of a sample of adult offenders.”
• Randomized experiments in criminology: What have we learned in the last two decades? (2005, background): “ Killias et al. (2000) reported that community service, compared with imprisonment, caused a near-significant 24% decrease in convictions.”
• Assessing the Impact of First-Time Imprisonment on Offenders’ Subsequent Criminal Career Development: A Matched Samples Comparison (2009, methodology): “Finally, an experiment in the Swiss canton of Vaud ( Killias et al. 2000 ) involved random assignment to community service and incarceration.”
• Children's Antisocial Behavior, Mental Health, Drug Use, and Educational Performance After Parental Incarceration (2012, background): “For example, Killias et al. (2000) invited people sentenced to prison for up to 2 weeks in Switzerland to participate in a study in which they were randomly assigned either to serve their sentence in prison as usual or to serve a community sentence.”
• The Effect of Incarceration on Re-Offending: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Pennsylvania (2013, background): “Rather than relying 6 The subjects of the Killias, Aebi, and Ribeaud (2000) and the Van der Werff (1979) studies both involved populations of individuals who, if imprisoned, would have received sentences of 14 days or less.”
• Imprisonment and Reoffending (2009, background): “The subjects of the Killias, Aebi, and Ribeaud (2000) and the Van der Werff (1979) studies both involved populations of individuals who, if imprisoned, would have received sentences of 14 days or less.”