Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Social Welfare Dependence
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Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Social Welfare Dependence. / Andersen, Lars Højsgaard; Andersen, Signe Hald.
In: Criminology and Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2014.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Social Welfare Dependence
AU - Andersen, Lars Højsgaard
AU - Andersen, Signe Hald
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Research SummaryWe studied the effect on unemployment social welfare dependence of serving a sentence under elec-tronic monitoring rather than in prison, using Danish registry data and two policy shifts that extended the use of electronic monitoring in Denmark. We found electronic monitoring is less harmful than imprisonment, at least for younger offenders, whereas it does not leave older offenders worse off than imprisonment. Policy ImplicationsAs the United States moves towards noncustodial alternatives to imprisonment, it makes sense for policy makers to direct their attention to experiences from other contexts. The experiences from Denmark are clear: Electronic monitoring is less harmful than imprisonment to the life course out-comes of offenders. Since electronic monitoring could also very well be less costly for the corrections administrations than imprisonment, efforts to extend the use of electronic monitoring in the United States could be accelerated.
AB - Research SummaryWe studied the effect on unemployment social welfare dependence of serving a sentence under elec-tronic monitoring rather than in prison, using Danish registry data and two policy shifts that extended the use of electronic monitoring in Denmark. We found electronic monitoring is less harmful than imprisonment, at least for younger offenders, whereas it does not leave older offenders worse off than imprisonment. Policy ImplicationsAs the United States moves towards noncustodial alternatives to imprisonment, it makes sense for policy makers to direct their attention to experiences from other contexts. The experiences from Denmark are clear: Electronic monitoring is less harmful than imprisonment to the life course out-comes of offenders. Since electronic monitoring could also very well be less costly for the corrections administrations than imprisonment, efforts to extend the use of electronic monitoring in the United States could be accelerated.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - causal inference
KW - electronic monitoring
KW - noncustodial alternatives to imprisonment
KW - register data
KW - unemployment
KW - welfare dependence
U2 - 10.1111/1745-9133.12087
DO - 10.1111/1745-9133.12087
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
JO - Criminology and Public Policy
JF - Criminology and Public Policy
SN - 1538-6473
IS - 3
ER -
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