Offenders serving community sentences are more likely to keep jobs, earn more – new research
- Written by Peer Ebbesen Skov, Associate Professor in Economics, Auckland University of Technology
Hagen Hopkins/Getty ImagesWhen should offenders be sent to prison and when is it better to keep them in the community under close supervision?
New Zealand confronted that choice in 2007 when it introduced home detention, community detention and intensive supervision as alternatives to short prison terms.
At the time of the reform, New Zealand...
