Project 2 Early Draft

  • Effect of crime

    Lance, and Enrico Moretti. The effect of education on crime: Evidence from prison inmates, arrests,and self-reports. No. w8605. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001. (This articles argues that based on results done of prision inmates, lack of education and guidance at an early age is a key contributor to criminal activities)
  • Education's role

    Moretti, Enrico. "Does education reduce participation in criminal activities." symposium on “The Social Costs of Inadequate Education”(Columbia University Teachers College. 2005.
    (Compared to the 2001 article, this article focuses more on education's role in crime reduction and suggests how the government can enforce different policies that could benefit youn children by educating them at an early age.
  • Juvenile Delinquency

    Dolan, Krista A. "Juvenile crime: Using education as a tool for prevention, intervention, and socialization."Widener Journal of Law, Economics & Race (2012).
    (This article shows how overtime the focus of implenting crime prevention has been narrowed down to the youth/ teenage era because over the years the rate of crime committed by juvenile delinquents has increased immensely. It argues that crime prevention programs should be targeting elemetary and middle schools.)
  • Effect of Parental Incarceration

    Murray, Joseph, David P. Farrington, and Ivana Sekol. "Children's antisocial behavior, mental health, drug use, and educational performance after parental incarceration: a systematic review andmeta-analysis." Psychological bulletin 138.2 (2012): 175.
    ( This article is a more recent article which focuses more on the effect parental incarceration has on a child's behaviour and how it could be affect their lifestyle. It is quite different from the early articles that focus more on education)