THE IMPACT OF FLORIDA'S HABITUAL OFFENDER LAW ON CRIME

Research examining the impact of habitual offender laws on crime has suffered from numerous methodological problems, including failure to consider incapacitation effects that may be responsible for most of the laws' impact but that may not appear until years after the law is passed; not address...

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Published in:	Criminology (Beverly Hills) Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 179 - 204
Main Author:	KOVANDZIC, TOMISLAV V.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-02-2001 American Society of Criminology
Subjects:	Career Criminals Crime Crime prevention Criminal justice Criminal Law Criminal sentences Criminals Criminology Florida Offenders Social control Social problems State laws U.S.A Florida United States > US
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Summary:	Research examining the impact of habitual offender laws on crime has suffered from numerous methodological problems, including failure to consider incapacitation effects that may be responsible for most of the laws' impact but that may not appear until years after the law is passed; not addressing simultaneity issues; and omitting needed control variables to avoid spurious or suppressed results. The present study specifies procedures that can be used to mitigate these problems. These procedures are used in the current study to estimate the impact of Florida's habitual offender law on crime using a multiple time series design, with data for 58 counties from 1980–1998.
Bibliography:	istex:EB871F849A55B80C82474B6AFCE2E30F72424236 ark:/67375/WNG-2826BNPM-7 ArticleID:CRIM179 This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C., 1998. I would like to acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions made by Gary Kleck, Thomas Marvell, Lynne Vieraitis, John Sloan, Gordon Waldo, and the anonymous reviewers. Thanks also to Bill Bales and the staff of the Bureau of Research and Data Analysis at the Florida Department of Corrections for providing the data for this study. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D.C., 1998. I would like to acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions made by Gary Kleck, Thomas Marvell, Lynne Vieraitis, John Sloan, Gordon Waldo, and the anonymous reviewers. Thanks also to Bill Bales and the staff of the Bureau of Research and Data Analysis at the Florida Department of Corrections for providing the data for this study. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the 50 th Tomislav V. Kovandzic is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Justice Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University in 1999. ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2
ISSN:	0011-1384 1745-9125
DOI:	10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00920.x