We study the effect of secondary education on criminal behavior young men in Finland. exploit admission cut-offs over-subscribed programs and estimate gaining access to a) any school vs no access, b) general vocational school, c) selective less school. Our results show that has a sizeable negative propensity commit crime. There are effects at other two margins. The extensive margin largest year...

– Territories of Violence: State, Marginal Youth, and Public Security in Honduras, by Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. – Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, by Deborah T. Levenson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. – The Rule of Law in Central America: Citizens’ Reactions to Crime and Punishment, by Mary Fran T. Malone. New...

Surveys of self-reported behaviors of adolescents and young adults indicate high rates of offending among these age groups (Elliott et al., 1983; Lauritsen, Sampson, and Laub, 1991). Similarly, surveys of victims’ perceptions of offender characteristics indicate that the most common age group for offenders committing rape, robbery, and assault is youth ages 18–20, followed by juveniles ages 15–...

This article is one of the first to examine the relationships among a specific combination of "spiritual virtues" (helping others and the experience of divine love) and outcomes related to criminal involvement, sobriety, and character development among adolescents. One-hundred ninety five adolescents with substance dependency court-referred to residential treatment were assessed at intake, disc...

In this paper we consider the association between victimisation and offending behaviour using data from the Youth Lifestyles Survey. We consider the impact of violent, non-violent and persistent offending on the probability of being a victim of violent and non-violent crime and find a positive association between these using univariate probit estimates. However, taking into account the endogeno...

A sample of 331 residents of Grapevine, Texas, responded to an instrument designed to assess their perspectives of the priority issues related to economic development in their community. The instrument also assessed the parks and recreation department’s contributions to these issues, and compared them with those of the police department in the area of preventing youth crime. The data were used ...

Judging from certain mass media two representations of intergenerational relations between adult children and parents seem to emerge: They are either in a state of permanent unsolvable conflict, or they have as little contacts as possible. The cover of an issue of the German magazine "spiegel-Special" on generations is a good example of the first assumption. "Generations in Conflict" appears in...

This Research in Brief examines the extent to which a national sample of male high school sophomores and juniors was involved in, or otherwise affected by, firearm-related activity. Data were gathered by means of a survey mailed to high school students. It sought information on their firearmand crime-related activities for the 12 months prior to the survey as well as social, demographic, and pe...

The most fundamental law of economics links the price of a product to the demand for that product. Accordingly, increases in the monetary price of alcohol (i.e., through tax increases) would be expected to lower alcohol consumption and its adverse consequences. Studies investigating such a relationship found that alcohol prices were one factor influencing alcohol consumption among youth and you...

This article analyzes the youth policy promoted by Andrés Manuel López Obrador administration. We contend that, although this government claims to be implementing an alternative approach promote social inclusion for youth, its actions seem far from fulfilling commitment. “Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro,” chief program of government, hardly improves employment prospects most deprived and brings ...