The Predictive Value of Criminal Background Checks: Do Age and Criminal History Affect Time to Redemption
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∗ The authors would like to thank the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center for financially supporting the visits that enabled this international collaboration. We also would like to thank seminar participants at the NSCR and the 2008 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology as well as Robert Brame, Megan Kurlychek, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. All errors remain our own. Direct correspondence to Shawn D. Bushway, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, 135 Western Ave., Albany, NY 12222 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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