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Title: Exploring the Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Arrest within the Forgotten Half
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Kamerdze, Amy |
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Exploring the Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Arrest within the Forgotten Half Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Arrests; Dropouts; Educational Attainment; High School Completion/Graduates Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation uses the first 14 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to examine the relationship between educational attainment and arrest. Regressions were run to assess the effect of educational attainment on arrest for the Forgotten Half, as well as by gender and racial and ethnic group. Results from these zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) regressions confirm a relationship, with dropouts being arrested the most, high school graduates the least, and stopouts falling in the middle. Results for both childhood social control theory and identity theory models found that inclusion of concepts from these theories weakened the relationship between stopping out and arrest so much that the relationship became insignificant. Dropping out, on the other hand, was only slightly affected by the addition of these theoretical constructs. The relationship between dropping out and arrest was diminished more by the inclusion of theoretical variables measured during adulthood. The dissertation also considers the theoretical and policy implications of these findings. |
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Kamerdze, Amy. Exploring the Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Arrest within the Forgotten Half. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017. |