Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration and Juvenile Crime

By Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Testing the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline (2017, background): “Schools can be dangerous places for young people; violent crimes by young people tend to increase when school is in session (Jacob & Lefgren, 2003), and students between 12 and 18 years old experience more victimizations in school than out of school (Robers et al., 2014).”
Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism (2012, unknown): “It has also been shown that crime committed by younger people have higher degrees of social interactions (Glaeser et al., 1996; Jacob and Lefgren, 2003; Patacchini and Zenou, 2008).1 There is indeed a growing literature in economics suggesting that peer effects are very strong in criminal decisions.”
Deviant Peer Influences in Intervention and Public Policy for Youth (2006, background): “In a startling recent study, Jacob and Lefgren (2003) found that school itself increases violent crime by 28%.”
Does Child Abuse Cause Crime (2006, unknown): “(2002), Kendler et al. (2000) and Dinwiddie et al.”
The effects of education on crime (2010, background): “Finally, Jacob and Lefgren ( 2003 ) examine the short-term effect of school on juvenile crime.”
In School and Out of Trouble? The Minimum Dropout Age and Juvenile Crime (2014, background): “Keeping youth in school longer may promote physical altercations and facilitate the coordination of crime (Jacob & Lefgren, 2003).”
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, background): “…examines the effects of increasing state compulsory schooling ages on crime among affected youth (i.e. forcing some youth to stay in school), while Jacob and Lefgren (2003) and Luallen (2006) estimate the effects of extra days off from school due to teacher in-service days or teacher strikes…”
Welfare Payments and Crime (2011, methodology): “In keeping with the analysis of patterns in crime presented in papers like Jacob, Lefgren, and Morretti (2007) and Jacob and Lefgren (2003), the analysis here controls for the effects of weather and holidays on crime.”