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*Title*: "The National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) Data as a Research Platform: Evaluation Design Considerations [ [link removed] ]
"*Authors*: Abt Associates: William Rhodes, Gerald Gaes, Ryan Kling, Jeremy Luallen, and Tom Rich
*Publication date*: June 2021
*Award number*: 2010-BJ-CX-K067 and 2015-R2-CX-K135

This report was produced by Abt Associates for BJS under award number 2010-BJ-CX-K067 and 2015-R2-CX-K135. A hypothetical evaluation question posits that a state introduced a reform intended to reduce incarceration for a targeted group of offenders. This paper discusses how BJS’s National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) data might be used to investigate what that reform accomplished. Once a state introduces a reform, an evaluator can observe what happened following that introduction, but the evaluator cannot tell what would have happened had the state not introduced that reform. This paper is a discussion of selected quasi-experimental approaches that should be useful for dealing with the above evaluation question: pretest-posttest designs, difference-in-differences designs, difference-in-difference-in-differences designs, and synthetic control methods. While not an exhaustive list of evaluation strategies, this paper aims to emphasize the analysis of panel data derived from the NCRP.

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*Title*: "Estimating Incidence and Cumulative Incidence of Incarceration Using National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) Data [ [link removed] ]
"*Authors*: Abt Associates: William Rhodes, Gerald Gaes, Jeremy Luallen, Ryan Kling, Tom Rich, and Christopher Cutler
*Publication date*: June 2021
*Award number*: 2015-R2-CX-K135

This report was produced by Abt Associates for BJS under award number 2015-R2-CX-K135. This paper describes a new methodology for estimating the incidence and cumulative incidence of imprisonment in the United States. It estimates the age at which the first prison admission is most likely to occur, trends in incidence across age cohorts, and trends in cumulative incidence across these cohorts. It uses data from BJS’s National Corrections Reporting Program from 1982 to 1987.

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*Title*: "National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) White Paper Series, White Paper #3: A Description of Computing Code Used to Identify Correctional Terms and Histories [ [link removed] ]
"*Authors*: Abt Associates: Jeremy Luallen, Kevin Neary, Brendan Rabideau, William Rhodes, Gerald Gaes, and Tom Rich
*Publication date*: June 2021
*Award number*: 2010-BJ-CX-K067

This report was produced by Abt Associates for BJS under award number 2010-BJ-CX-K067. This National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) paper provides technical documentation for constructing prison and post-confinement community supervision (PCCS) terms and term histories, as well as the construction of longitudinal histories linking prison and PCCS term histories together. With this documentation, NCRP data users will have the ability to understand, recreate, and combine, if desired, prison and PCCS terms and term histories. Thus, this paper provides details of the algorithm used to process, characterize, and validate terms of incarceration and supervision reported to the NCRP. Topics include (1) how to identify and tentatively classify terms, (2) how to adjust and refine those tentative terms, (3) how to use prison stock populations (D records) to supplement the datafile, and (4) how to incorporate other adjustments into the final NCRP data.

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics funded these third-party reports. They are not BJS reports and do not release official government statistics. These reports are released to help inform interested parties of the research or analysis contained within and to encourage discussion. BJS has performed a limited review of these reports to ensure the general accuracy of information and adherence to confidentiality and disclosure standards. Any statistics included in these reports are not official BJS statistics unless they have been previously published in a BJS report. Any analysis, conclusions, or opinions expressed in these reports are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views, opinions, or policies of the Bureau of Justice Statistics or the U.S. Department of Justice.

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