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作者

来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.65,P.16-24

语言

英文

关键字

Education; Crime; JUVENILE CRIME; INCAPACITATION; LOTTERIES; EDUCATION

作者单位

[Billings, Stephen B.] Univ Colorado, Dept Finance, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. [Phillips, David C.] Univ Notre Dame, Dept Econ, Wilson Sheehan Lab Econ Opportun, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA. Billings, SB (reprint author), Univ Colorado, Dept Finance, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. E-Mail: stephen.billings@colorado.edu; David.Phillips.184@nd.edu

摘要

Previous literature highlights a robust relationship between schools and longer term criminal outcomes. The research presented here examines the short term effects of school being in-session on crime. We begin by confirming the findings of Jacob and Lefgren (2003) that teacher in-service days lead to a reduction in violent crime, consistent with a role for social interactions in school. We extend this result by showing that schools populated with more high crime risk students have larger decreases in crime on teacher in-service days but that this effect is reversed for schools with mostly low crime risk students. These results provide evidence that concentrating high crime risk students into particular schools increases local crime.