| Title: |
Juvenile Crime and Punishment: Assessing the Relationship between Violent Crime Rates and Punishment |
| Authors: |
Faisal N. Rashid; Advisor Thomas Macurdy; Chapter I. Introduction |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://economics.stanford.edu/files/Theses/Theses_2004/Rashid.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2004 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Description: |
Over the past twenty years juvenile violent crime rates have increased tremendously. In light of this disturbing trend, this paper examines whether variation in punishment levels has any impact on juvenile violent crime. To examine this relationship I first establish a behavioral model of juvenile crime, from which point I introduce an empirical model and use available data to estimate this model. Ultimately, my analysis reveals that juvenile violent crime rates are negatively affected by increases in juvenile punishment. Additionally, I also show that the relative punitiveness of the adult and juvenile justice systems negatively affects changes in violent crime rates between juveniles immediately before and after they enter the adult justice system. Acknowledgements: I would firstly like to thank Professor Thomas MaCurdy for introducing me to the topic of juvenile crime and punishment and for serving as an extremely helpful thesis advisor. Additionally, I would like to thank Sri Nagavarapu for assisting me with various aspects of my thesis. |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.527.7003; http://economics.stanford.edu/files/Theses/Theses_2004/Rashid.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.527.7003; http://economics.stanford.edu/files/Theses/Theses_2004/Rashid.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.69E0AE10 |
| Database: |
BASE |