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Title: Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage and Criminal Justice Contact in Adulthood: Heterogeneous Effects by Timing of Exposure
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Alvarado, Steven Elias |
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Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage and Criminal Justice Contact in Adulthood: Heterogeneous Effects by Timing of Exposure Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Criminal Justice System; Geocoded Data; Incarceration/Jail; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Neighborhood Effects; Siblings Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Residential segregation and mass incarceration are key components of contemporary inequality. This paper examines the association between early exposure to neighborhood disadvantage in youth and incarceration in adulthood. Restricted and geocoded panel data from the NLSY, Children and Young Adults cohort allows for the analysis of 26 years (14 waves) of neighborhood effects across the life-course. These data parallel the prison boom span multiple members and generations of the family. Sibling fixed effects analyses suggest that exposure to neighborhood disadvantage early in life increases 1) the odds of developing problematic behaviors in childhood and adolescence and 2) the odds of criminal conviction and being incarcerated as an adult, net of observed and unobserved adjustments. The results also align with developmental theory in that exposure to neighborhood conditions during adolescence is more salient than exposure during early childhood. Alternative specifications of neighborhood disadvantage and cousin fixed effects models reinforce the findings. |
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Alvarado, Steven Elias. "Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage and Criminal Justice Contact in Adulthood: Heterogeneous Effects by Timing of Exposure." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |