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Explaining the Consequences of Imprisonment for Union Formation and Dissolution in Denmark
Crime and subsequent imprisonment reduces men's chances on the marriage market and increases their divorce risk, but existing research, with a few notable exceptions, is silent about the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. This article studies the effect of home confinement under elect...
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2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5157766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31747451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.21933 |
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description | Crime and subsequent imprisonment reduces men's chances on the marriage market and increases their divorce risk, but existing research, with a few notable exceptions, is silent about the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. This article studies the effect of home confinement under electronic monitoring as a noncustodial alternative to imprisonment on the risk of relationship dissolution and being single, thereby distinguishing between effects of incarceration and of committing crime. We study a policy that expanded the use of electronic monitoring to address nonrandom selection into electronic monitoring instead of in prison. Results from a sample of 4,522 men show that home confinement under electronic monitoring significantly and persistently lowers the risk both of being single and of becoming single during the first five years following conviction. The results show that one of the tools that could promote decarceration trends also secures better relationship outcomes of convicted men. |
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spelling | pubmed-51577662016-12-30 Explaining the Consequences of Imprisonment for Union Formation and Dissolution in Denmark Fallesen, Peter Andersen, Lars H. J Policy Anal Manage Feture Articles Crime and subsequent imprisonment reduces men's chances on the marriage market and increases their divorce risk, but existing research, with a few notable exceptions, is silent about the underlying mechanisms driving these effects. This article studies the effect of home confinement under electronic monitoring as a noncustodial alternative to imprisonment on the risk of relationship dissolution and being single, thereby distinguishing between effects of incarceration and of committing crime. We study a policy that expanded the use of electronic monitoring to address nonrandom selection into electronic monitoring instead of in prison. Results from a sample of 4,522 men show that home confinement under electronic monitoring significantly and persistently lowers the risk both of being single and of becoming single during the first five years following conviction. The results show that one of the tools that could promote decarceration trends also secures better relationship outcomes of convicted men. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-07-05 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5157766/ /pubmed/31747451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.21933 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Association for Public Policy and Management This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐Non‐Commercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
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title | Explaining the Consequences of Imprisonment for Union Formation and Dissolution in Denmark |
title_full | Explaining the Consequences of Imprisonment for Union Formation and Dissolution in Denmark |
title_fullStr | Explaining the Consequences of Imprisonment for Union Formation and Dissolution in Denmark |
title_full_unstemmed | Explaining the Consequences of Imprisonment for Union Formation and Dissolution in Denmark |
title_short | Explaining the Consequences of Imprisonment for Union Formation and Dissolution in Denmark |
title_sort | explaining the consequences of imprisonment for union formation and dissolution in denmark |
topic | Feture Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5157766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31747451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.21933 |
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