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Propensity Score Methods in Criminology

Propensity score methods estimate the causal effect of a criminal-justice treatment — such as incarceration, gang membership, a diversion program, or arrest — from observational data, where random assignment is impossible. Building on Rosenbaum and Rubin's 1983 framework and adapted to crime research by Apel, Sweeten, and others, the approach summarizes many confounders into a single probability of treatment, then matches, weights, or stratifies on it to approximate a randomized comparison. This page covers the criminological application; for the general estimators see propensity-score-matching and propensity-score-weighting.

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Propensity Score Methods for Causal Inference in Criminology
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  • Rosenbaum, P. R., & Rubin, D. B. (1983). The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects. Biometrika, 70(1), 41–55. · DOI 10.1093/biomet/70.1.41
  • Apel, R. J., & Sweeten, G. (2010). Propensity score matching in criminology and criminal justice. In Handbook of Quantitative Criminology (pp. 543–562). Springer. · DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-77650-7_26
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Same method familyCriminal Career Paradigmmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPropensity Score Matchingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoPropensity Score Weightingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Used in the same domainRecidivism Survival Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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