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Cost Effectiveness of Misdemeanant Probation in Hamilton County, Ohio, 1981-1982

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Principal Investigator(s): Hartigan, Richard

Summary: This research was designed to determine whether the supervision of misdemeanant probationers was cost-effective for increasing the level of successful probation completions in Hamilton County, Ohio. The primary objective was to examine the relationships among these factors: supervision costs, the collection of court costs, fines, and restitution, types of supervision, risk assessment, and probationer conduct for the population of probationers. Probationers were initially classified accord... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08259.v1

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