Forging a Florida Correctional Research Coalition: Evaluating the Impact of Florida's Habitual Offender Law. Final Report

摘要

The Florida Correctional Research Coalition (FCRC) engaged in a variety of organizational activities during its short duration, as well as the preparation of two additional research proposals. The FCRC was also involved in several short-term research projects which were aimed at providing information for the selection of one large-scale research project to conduct that seemed most timely, most useful, most important, and most realistic given the resources and timeframe of the grant. The research project selected, which was the major activity of the grant, was concerned with the process of selective incapacitation, or, more specifically, an evaluation of Florida's habitual offender law. While the concept of selective incapacitation has been prominent in corrections for a long time, the amount of research aimed at trying to assess its impact is still very limited. This is due, at least in part, because few correctional programs lend themselves to an empirical assessment of the selective incapacitation effect.