Associations between prisons and recidivism: A nationwide longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine differences in recidivism rates between different prisons using two designs-between-individual and within-individual-to account for confounding factors.

Methods

We examined recidivism rates among 37,891 individuals released from 44 Swedish prisons in three security levels, and who were followed from 2006 to 2013. We used longitudinal data from nationwide registers, including all convictions from district courts. First, we applied a between-individual design (Cox proportional hazards regression), comparing reconviction rates between individuals released from prisons within the same security level, while adjusting for a range of individual-level covariates. Second, we applied a within-individual design (stratified Cox proportional hazards regression), com

SUBMITTER: Yu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113604 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature