The department has some research. I believe it's been provided to the committee; if not, we can make it available.
Unfortunately, there is no conclusive answer with respect to the benefits of conditional sentences. We would certainly like to do more. Professor Roberts has done some research for the department. He's done surveys with criminal justice system professionals and he's done surveys with victims. As noted in his book, he's very much a proponent of conditional sentences. There are certainly cases in which they work very effectively. Then there are others in which society, the public, and others, including victims of crime, react very negatively to them, and cases in which people are not rehabilitated, but there's still not enough time to have tracked those individuals, and it's very difficult to look at a particular case and that person's own recidivism or rehabilitation after the fact. Unfortunately, we're quite limited in the data that's available to do that kind follow-up research.