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Title: Crimes by Youth: Deterrence and Moral Compliance with the Law
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Phillips, Llad Votey, Harold L. |
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Crimes by Youth: Deterrence and Moral Compliance with the Law Contemporary Policy Issues 5,4 (October 1987): 73-90. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-7287.1987.tb00273.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Western Economic Association International Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Earnings; Family Influences; Income A decision theory framework is employed to assess the extent to which crimes by youth are explained by the "economic model of crime." This model is expanded from the usual formulation including deterrence effects to investigate the impact of earned income and income supplements on individuals' crime participation. Variables representing the forces of moral compliance and family attitudes also are evaluated. Data are from the NLSY consisting of 12,686 individuals' responses over a 3-year period. The sample is divided into 4 subsets: (1) innocents who have never committed a crime; (2) experimenters who admitted to some crime but had not been caught; (3) desisters who reported no 1979 offenses but had had past contact with the police; and (4) persisters who had crime involvement in 1979 and had had prior contacts with police. Moral compliance is found to have a moderating effect on the decision to commit crimes, even by persistently criminal individuals. Moreover, the expected cost of sanctions has more impact than does the lack of realized economic opportunities. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Phillips, Llad and Harold L. Votey. "Crimes by Youth: Deterrence and Moral Compliance with the Law." Contemporary Policy Issues 5,4 (October 1987): 73-90.
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