Education and youth crime : effects of introducing the Education Maintenance Allowance programme [Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No. 14]
Education and youth crime : effects of introducing the Education Maintenance Allowance programme [Wider Benefits of Learning Research Report No. 14]
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教育与青少年犯罪：引入教育维持津贴计划的影响[学习研究报告第 14 号更广泛的好处]
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2005
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R. Sabates
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L. Feinstein;R. Sabates
教育对个人犯罪倾向有潜在的很大影响，也可能是地区一级犯罪率差异的重要来源。英格兰的犯罪统计数据表明，受教育程度较高的地区的犯罪率较低，这些地区也是人均收入较高的地区，属于最高社会经济地位的家庭比例较高(内政部，2003年)。教育和犯罪之间的联系是否是因果关系，或者它是否掩盖了一些可能不是由教育造成的影响，目前还不太清楚。这份报告利用自然的实验环境探索了教育和犯罪之间的关系。为此，我们评估了在减少青少年犯罪方面的教育生活津贴(EMA)--儿童、学校和家庭部(DCFS)旨在提高义务教育后参与率的方案。我们首先讨论为什么教育可以对减少犯罪产生影响的理论原因，以及评估环境管理和管理方案的方法。然后，我们介绍了我们对EMA地区相对于其他地区16至18岁男性入室盗窃、盗窃和暴力犯罪定罪率变化的估计结果。特别是，我们探讨了环境管理协会方案与减少入室盗窃倡议相结合的效果，这是一项由内政部在英格兰和威尔士推出的预防犯罪计划，大约在同一时间进行环境管理协会的试点。我们的研究强调了政府针对年轻人的方案之间的联系的重要性，如环境管理协会和印度央行，并证明了认识到关键机构、政府部门和利益攸关方之间的联系的方案可能带来的高水平潜在社会利益。这份报告还显示了提供教育的能力，以满足广泛的政策目标。
Education is a potentially large influence on individual propensities to offend and possibly an important source of area-level variation in crime rates. Crime statistics for England indicate that crime rates are lower in areas with higher levels of education, which are also areas of higher per capita income and contain a higher proportion of families belonging to the highest socio-economic status (Home Office, 2003). Whether the association between education and crime is causal, or whether it masks a number of possible effects that may not be due to education, is less clear. This report explores the relationship between education and crime using a natural experimental setting. To do this, we evaluate the Educational Maintenance Allowances (EMA) – a Department for Children Schools and Families (DCFS) programme designed to increase participation in post-compulsory education – in terms of juvenile crime reduction. We first address the theoretical reasons why education can have an effect on crime reduction and the methodology to evaluate the EMA programme. We then present the results from our estimates of the change in conviction rates for burglary, thefts and violent crimes, for 16 to 18 year old males, in EMA areas relative to other areas. In particular, we explore the effects of the EMA programme on burglary reduction in combination with the Reducing Burglary Initiative, a crime prevention programme introduced by the Home Office in England and Wales around the same time that the EMA were being piloted. Our research highlights the importance of connections between government programmes for young people, such as the EMA and the RBI, and demonstrates the high levels of potential social benefit that may flow from programmes that recognise the connections between key agencies, government departments and stakeholders. This report also shows the capability of education provision in meeting wide-ranging policy objectives.