@article{ref1,
title="Preventing crime through selective incapacitation",
journal="Economic journal",
year="2013",
author="Vollaard, Ben",
volume="123",
number="567",
pages="262-284",
abstract="Making the length of a prison sentence conditional upon an individual's offence history is shown to be a powerful way of preventing crime. Under a law adopted in the Netherlands in 2001, prolific offenders could be sentenced to a prison term that was approximately 10 times longer than usual. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in application of the law across 31 cities to identify the effect on crime. We find the sentence enhancements to have reduced the rate of theft by 25%. The size of the crime-reducing effect is found to be subject to diminishing returns.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0013-0133",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02522.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02522.x"
}