TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gehrsitz, Markus
AU  - Grant, Sam
AU  - McIntyre, Stuart
        TI  - From Custody to Community: Post-Release Supervision and Re-Offending
        PY  - 2026/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18682
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18682
        AB  - Many criminal offenders are managed in the community. We combine a natural experiment with administrative data from England and Wales to assess a key community correctional policy: post-release supervision. We find that supervision reduces re-offending in the first four weeks after prison release by 15%, in part due to the incapacitation of prolific offenders who are recalled to prison for violations of their probation terms. Supervision also causes a 5.5% reduction in re-offending three years after release. This effect persistence, which is even stronger for first-time prisoners, suggests that post-release supervision is a cost-efficient way to induces genuine behavioural change.
        KW  - crime
KW  - re-offending
KW  - probation
KW  - supervision
        ER  -