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Title: Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation And Household Economic Resources
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Bjerk, David |
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Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation And Household Economic Resources Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23,1 (March 2007): 23-39. Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/d1p8w883k84w4606/ Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Keyword(s): Crime; Economics, Demographic; Gender Differences; Household Income Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study revisits the empirical relationship between household economic resources and youth criminal participation. Data were obtained from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Contrary to previous research, the current findings suggested that much of the strength of this association may be obscured because of nonlinearities, the fact that the relationship is restricted to serious crimes, and, most important, error with respect to measuring household economic resources. Adjusting for these issues substantially increased the estimated strength of the link between household economic resources and youth crime. Indeed, the differences in serious criminal participation between youth from households in the upper parts of the income distribution and those from households in the lower parts of this distribution appeared to be greater than the difference in serious criminal participation between genders. |
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Bjerk, David. "Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation And Household Economic Resources." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23,1 (March 2007): 23-39.
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