Journal article
A Selection Artifact in Delinquency Data Revisited
Operations research, Vol.31(5), pp.852-865
10/1983
DOI: 10.1287/opre.31.5.852
Abstract
Studies of correctional programs have observed that delinquents exhibit a sharp rise in their arrest rates up to the time of intervention, and that they continue their activity after their release from the programs, but at a lower rate. The nature of this phenomenon has precipitated controversy; one school of thought attributes it to the effectiveness of the correctional programs, another claims that it may be due largely to a selection artifact. An analysis proposes in a recent article by M. D. Maltz and S. M. Pollock supported the artifact hypothesis. In this paper, we point out an error in M. D. Maltz and S. M. Pollock's analysis, and show analytically and by simulation that the correction of this error reduces the size of the selection artifact. However, it is still plausible to the attribute the observed phenomenon to a selection artifact.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Selection Artifact in Delinquency Data Revisited
- Creators
- Luke Tierney - Carnegie Mellon University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Operations research, Vol.31(5), pp.852-865
- DOI
- 10.1287/opre.31.5.852
- ISSN
- 0030-364X
- eISSN
- 1526-5463
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1983
- Academic Unit
- Statistics and Actuarial Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984257626902771
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