Measuring the relationship between youth criminal participation and household economic resources
Measuring the relationship between youth criminal participation and household economic resources
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DOI：
10.1007/s10940-006-9017-8
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Bjerk, David
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作者：
Bjerk, David
本文利用NLSY97的数据，重新审视了家庭经济资源与青少年犯罪参与之间的实证关系。以前对这种关系的估计常常表明这种关系非常弱甚至不存在。然而，这一分析表明，由于这种关系的非线性，这种关系仅与性质严重的犯罪无关，特别是由于衡量家庭经济资源的测量误差，家庭经济资源与青少年犯罪参与之间的关系强度可能会被掩盖。我表明，对这些问题进行调整可以大大提高这种关系的估计强度。事实上，本文的结果表明，来自收入分配上部家庭的青年和来自收入分配下部家庭的青年之间严重犯罪参与的差异似乎大于性别之间严重犯罪参与的差异。
Using data from the NLSY97, this paper re-examines the empirical relationship between household economic resources and youth criminal participation. Previous estimates of this relationship have often suggested this relationship to be quite weak or even non-existent. However, this analysis suggests that much of the strength of the relationship between household economic resources and youth criminal participation may be obscured due to non-linearities in this relationship, the fact that this relationship is isolated to crimes of a serious nature only, and especially because of measurement error with respect to measuring household economic resources. I show that adjusting for these issues substantially increases the estimated strength of this relationship. Indeed, the results in this paper show that the differences in serious criminal participation between youth from households in the upper parts of the income distribution and youth from households in the lower parts of the income distribution appear to be greater than the difference in serious criminal participation between genders.