Similar Search Results

Office-Based Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Arrests

Deza, Monica; Lu, Thanh; Maclean, Catherine - 2023

We estimate the effect of local access to office-based mental healthcare on juvenile arrest outcomes. We leverage variation in the number of mental healthcare offices within a county over the period 1999 to 2016 in a two-way fixed-effects model. Office-based treatment is the most common modality...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347041

"Might Not Be a Tomorrow" : A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

Brezina, Timothy - 2010

A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of quot;futurelessness,quot; as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758458

How Do Youth with Mental Disorders Fare in the Juvenile Justice System?

Cuellar, Alison - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between mental health problems and justice outcomes. Several … studies have documented that individuals with a variety of mental disorders are overrepresented in the justice system. This … possibility, which has been interpreted as the justice system being biased against those with mental disorders. In this paper we …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760732

School Nutrition and Student Discipline : Effects of Schoolwide Free Meals

Gordon, Nora - 2018

Under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), schools serving sufficiently high-poverty populations may enroll their entire student bodies in free lunch and breakfast programs, extending free meals to some students who would not qualify individually and potentially decreasing the stigma...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911494

Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs : The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs

Davis, Jonathan - 2017

This paper reports the results of two randomized field experiments, each offering different populations of youth a supported summer job in Chicago. In both experiments, the program dramatically reduces violent-crime arrests, even after the summer. It does so without improving employment,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955450

Lead and Juvenile Delinquency : New Evidence from Linked Birth, School and Juvenile Detention Records

Aizer, Anna - 2017

Using a unique dataset linking preschool blood lead levels (BLLs), birth, school, and detention data for 120,000 children born 1990-2004 in Rhode Island, we estimate the impact of lead on behavior: school suspensions and juvenile detention. We develop two instrumental variables approaches to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956915

Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Youth Crime

Corman, Hope - 2017

This study exploits differences in the implementation of welfare reform across states and over time to identify causal effects of maternal work incentives, and by inference employment, on youth arrests between 1990 and 2005, the period during which welfare reform unfolded. We consider both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965427

Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago

Heller, Sara - 2015

We present the results of three large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) carried out in Chicago, testing interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision-making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021890

Judges, Juveniles and In-Group Bias

Depew, Briggs - 2016

We investigate the existence of in-group bias (preferential treatment of one's own group) in court decisions. Using the universe of juvenile court cases in a U.S. state between 1996 and 2012 and exploiting random assignment of juvenile defendants to judges, we find evidence for negative racial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998415

Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars : Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2007

This paper analyzes the influence that juvenile offenders serving time in the same correctional facility have on each other's subsequent criminal behavior. The analysis is based on data on over 8,000 individuals serving time in 169 juvenile correctional facilities during a two-year period in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777587

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last