The role of violent and nonviolent delinquent behavior in educational attainment

Citation

Kim, Jinho (2018). The role of violent and nonviolent delinquent behavior in educational attainment. Youth and Society.

Abstract

Given large variations in the etiology and developmental trajectories of violent and nonviolent delinquency, this study examines whether educational outcomes of violent and nonviolent offenders might differ. In particular, this study attempts to remove environmental influences such as family background and neighborhood effects from the effects of delinquency because these factors are likely to differentially confound the effects of violent and nonviolent delinquency on educational attainment. By exploiting variation within sibling pairs, this study finds that the effects of engagement in violent delinquency on education is driven spuriously by shared family background, whereas the effects of nonviolent delinquency are quite robust to adjustment for family fixed effects. Moreover, relying on fixed effects estimates, this study finds that the effects of engagement in nonviolent delinquent activity on educational attainment occur in part through disruption of educational progress, rather than through institutional responses to student delinquency and social-psychological processes.

URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X18781641

Keyword(s)

delinquency violent behavior education

Reference Type

Journal Article

Journal Title

Youth and Society

Author(s)

Kim, Jinho

Year Published

2018

Edition

June 14, 2018

DOI

10.1177/0044118x18781641

Reference ID

9316