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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism
Autores: | Patacchini,   Eleonora; Zenou,   Yves.
Data: | 2010-06-14
Ano: | 2010
Palavras-chave: | Social Networks; Linear-in-means Model; Spatial Autoregressive Model; Social Norms; Labor and Human Capital; A14; C21; D85; K42; Z13.
Resumo: | This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed dataset of adolescent friendship networks. A novel social network-based empirical strategy allows us to identify peer effects for different types of crimes. We find that conformity plays an important role for all crimes, especially for petty crimes. This suggests that, for juvenile crime, an effective policy should not only be measured by the possible crime reduction it implies but also by the group interactions it engenders.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/90945

Relação:

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)&gt;Global Challenges Papers

GC

59.2010

Formato: | 40