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1. Yetter, Alyssa
Government Assistance and Recidivism
Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Crime; Criminal Justice System; Program Participation/Evaluation; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

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The 1990s saw welfare in the spotlight with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. This law replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The accompanying debate sparked a small body of criminological research seeking to answer the question of whether government assistance impacts crime rates. By examining government assistance expenditure across place, studies found, with few exceptions, that welfare spending is associated with decreases in homicide and property crime. Missing from this research, however, is any analysis of the effect of welfare assistance on individual criminal activity. I will address this gap in the literature by conducting a within-person analysis of government assistance and recidivism using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Also presented at Philadelphia PA, American Society of Criminology (ASC) Annual Meeting, November 2017.
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Yetter, Alyssa. "Government Assistance and Recidivism." Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017.