Assessing the impact of 'available street time' and mortality on estimates of recidivism / Anna Ferrante, Nini Loh [and] Max Maller.

Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 2010.

88447

Recidivism -- Risk assessment.

Recidivism -- Research -- Australia.

Recidivism -- Australia -- Western Australia.

Ex-convicts -- Australia -- Western Australia.

Ex-convicts -- Mortality -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Statistics.

"This methodological study assesses the impact of two factors--'available street time' and mortality--on the estimation of recidivism. Using survival analysis techniques to derive estimates of reoffending, the study compares adjusted and unadjusted rates and assesses how these rates vary for different offender populations and over different follow-up periods. In contrast to many previous studies, it finds that adjusting for time spent in custody and mortality makes little difference to the two-year recidivism rates of large offender populations." -- Publisher's website.

Title from title caption of PDF document (viewed on June 6, 2018).

"March 2010".

Includes bibliographical references.

9781921532504

1836-2052

1 online resource.