A Quasi-Experimental Study on the Effects of Community versus Custodial Sanctions in Youth Justice

IF 1.5 1区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI:10.1177/15412040221133094

Gwendolyn J. Koops-Geuze, H. Wermink, F. Weerman

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Abstract

Although community sanctions have become a popular alternative to custodial sanctions in youth justice, primary questions about the recidivism effects of community sanctions remain unanswered. The current study aims to fill this gap through a quasi-experimental analysis of 2-year recidivism differences between 4,425 youth subject to community sanctions versus custodial sanctions in the Netherlands in 2015 and 2016. Recidivism was analyzed in terms of overall, serious, and very serious recidivism for the full sample, a low risk subsample, and a medium-high risk subsample. Findings indicate that youth subject to community sanctions are less likely to recidivate overall, and less like likely to recidivate seriously than youth subject to custodial sanctions. Community sanctions were found to be particularly beneficial for preventing very serious recidivism among low risk youth. Additionally, it was found that medium-high risk youth subject to community sanctions are less likely to recidivate overall, and less seriously than medium-high risk youth subject to custodial sanctions. Implications of these findings for future research and practice are discussed.

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社区与羁押制裁对青少年司法效果的准实验研究

尽管社区制裁已成为青年司法中监禁制裁的一种流行替代方案，但关于社区制裁的累犯影响的主要问题仍未得到解答。目前的研究旨在通过对2015年和2016年荷兰4425名受社区制裁和监禁制裁的青年的2年累犯差异进行准实验分析来填补这一空白。从全样本、低风险子样本和中高风险子样本的总体、严重和非常严重累犯的角度分析累犯。调查结果表明，与受到监禁制裁的青年相比，受到社区制裁的青年总体上不太可能再次犯罪，也不太可能严重再次犯罪。社区制裁被发现对预防低风险青年中非常严重的累犯特别有益。此外，研究发现，受社区制裁的中高风险青年总体上不太可能再次犯罪，也没有受监禁制裁的中高危青年严重。讨论了这些发现对未来研究和实践的启示。

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Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice: An Interdisciplinary Journal provides academics and practitioners in juvenile justice and related fields with a resource for publishing current empirical research on programs, policies, and practices in the areas of youth violence and juvenile justice. Emphasis is placed on such topics as serious and violent juvenile offenders, juvenile offender recidivism, institutional violence, and other relevant topics to youth violence and juvenile justice such as risk assessment, psychopathy, self-control, and gang membership, among others. Decided emphasis is placed on empirical research with specific implications relevant to juvenile justice process, policy, and administration. Interdisciplinary in scope, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice serves a diverse audience of academics and practitioners in the fields of criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, behavior analysis, sociology, law, counseling, public health, and all others with an interest in youth violence and juvenile justice.