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Citation

Harris HM, Polans DS, Mazeika D, Sherman LW. J. Exp. Criminol. 2016; 12(4): 599-608.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11292-016-9265-z

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To describe how social scientists, criminal justice practitioners, and administrative agencies collected administrative data to follow-up a criminological experiment after two decades. To make recommendations that will guide similar long-term follow-ups.

METHODS: A case study approach describes the processes of and sociological benefits to collecting administrative data to assess criminal justice and life-course outcomes.

RESULTS: While maintaining experimental integrity, we developed, executed, and verified processes to retrieve arrest, mortality, and residential data for the experimental subjects, which enabled us to complete the longest ever follow-up of a criminal justice experiment.

CONCLUSIONS: When experiments have policy implications, administrative data may be preferable to survey data for assessing primary effects. Successful social science research can be conducted in conjunction with multiple administrative agencies.


Language: en

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