RETRACTED: Halfway Out: An Examination of the Effects of Halfway Houses on Criminal Recidivism

Abstract

Keywords

halfway house recidivism alternative sanction evaluation meta-analysis

At the request of the Journal Editor and Sage the following article has been retracted:

Wong J. S., Bouchard J., Gushue K., Lee C. (2019). Halfway out: An examination of the effects of halfway houses on criminal recidivism. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63(7), 1018–1037. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X18811964

The authors contacted the Journal Editor about an analytical syntax error in the article due to which a number of secondary conclusions of the article are not statistically significant.

In adherence to the international guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics, the Journal has determined these are grounds for retraction.

Consequently, at the request of the Editor and the Publisher, the article has been retracted.

The authors agree with the retraction.

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