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We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of deaths in the facility of detention during an inmate's stay and 3) the distance of the prison from the chief town of the province where the prison is located. By considering inmates who served their sentence in a jurisdiction different from the hometown in which they live after release, we can include province of residence fixed effects and account for the main source of unobserved heterogeneity correlated to prison conditions. We find that a harsher prison treatment does not reduce former inmates' criminal activity. The extent of overcrowding and the number of deaths do not decrease the probability to be re-arrested. Instead, we find evidence that the degree of isolation measured by distance from the prison of detention to the chief town of the province where the prison is located increases recidivism. -- Crime ; prison ; deterrence

"The delinquent child is a child in trouble which is never wholly of his own making. Only by better understanding of how he came to do what he has done--to be what he is--can we apply effective measures for correction. Our juvenile courts have for some forty years or more become increasingly aware of the individual needs, emotional, physical, intellectual, of children who are brought before them. In this study Dr. Levy has approached the problem from an original angle. She selected from the New York Children's Court a homogeneous group of boys to receive rather more intensive individual therapy than a probation officer has time or perhaps skill to apply. As a psychologist she developed with the children selected for this experiment a relationship which produced changes in their outlook and understanding of their own situation. Her emphasis on adjusting the child to his environment when the environment is not capable of much modification is a practical one. Although the number of cases in this study is not statistically significant, no one reading Dr. Levy's account of the experiment can doubt that she has made a contribution to our insight into the handling of such problems"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

This assesses the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs, specialized treatment for different types of offenders, management and treatment of drug-involved offenders and punishment, control and surveillance interventions to provide an intensive review of correctional interventions and programs. Through extensive research, MacKenzie illustrates which of these programs are most effective and why

1. Criminal recidivism -- 2. Criminal careers, recidivists and chronic offenders -- 3. Chronic offenders and their life stories -- 4. Risk assessment -- 5. Psychopathy -- 6. Sex offending -- 7. Evidence-based intervention and treatment -- 8. Conclusions.