TY  - JOUR
AU  - Imai,Susumu
AU  - Katayama,Hajime
AU  - Krishna,Kala
TI  - Crime and Young Men: The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience, and Heterogeneity
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12221
PY  - 2006
Y2  - May 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12221
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12221.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Susumu Imai
Department of Economics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
E-Mail: imais@econ.queensu.ca

Hajime Katayama
Department of Economics
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
E-Mail: h.katayama@econ.usyd.edu.au

Kala Krishna
Department of Economics
523 Kern Graduate Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814/865-1106
Fax: 814/863-4775
E-Mail: kmk4@psu.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-05-15
AB  - Using National Youth Survey (NYS) data, we examine the relationship of current criminal activity and past arrests using an ordered probit model with unobserved heterogeneity. Past arrests raise current criminal activity only for the non-criminal type, while past criminal experience raises current criminal activity for both types. Also, the age crime profile peaks at age 18 for non-criminal type individuals, but for criminal type individuals, it continues to rise with age. Past research indicates that age arrest profiles rise till age 18 and then fall for both types, suggesting lower apprehension rates for criminal type individuals.
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