Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation, and Adult Crime: Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness
| Autor: | Ozkan Eren, Naci H. Mocan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Recidivism Punishment media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Criminology Harshness 0502 economics and business Juvenile delinquency Juvenile 050207 economics Psychology Social psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050205 econometrics Graduation media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Review of Economics and Statistics. 103:34-47 |
| ISSN: | 1530-9142 0034-6535 |
| DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_00872 |
| Popis: | This paper contributes to the debate on the impact of juvenile crime punishment on high school completion and adult recidivism using administrative data from a southern U.S. state. We exploit random assignment of cases to judges and use idiosyncratic judge stringency in imprisonment to estimate the causal effect of incarceration. We find that juvenile incarceration increases the propensity of being convicted for a drug offense in adulthood while it lowers the propensity to be convicted of a property crime. Juvenile incarceration has also a detrimental effect on high school completion for earlier cohorts, but it has no impact on later cohorts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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