Lance Lochner The Effect Of Education On Crime Summary

Andrew Nyberg

9/13/17

PLS 207

Bibliography

Lochner, .Lance, and Enrico Moretti. “The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports ∗.” The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports ∗, Oct. 2003.

Lochner and Moretti in the Article are looking at how education affects the rate of incarceration. Lance Lochner is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario while Enrico Moretti is a professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA. In their findings they came to the conclusion that education rate significantly affects the rates of crime. Their findings also say that the education gap is responsible for 23% of the black/white

In her article she found that underperforming schools, like the ones in Chicago, deal with high levels of violent crime on school grounds. In her Journal she used data from the Chicago Police Department, administrative records from Chicago Public Schools, and school climate surveys by the Consortium on Chicago School Research. Her finding found that violent crime rates have a negative effect on test scores, but not on grades. She feels like this may have to do with classroom distractions and cognitive stress more than school climate or discipline practices. A shortcoming in her work is the fact that she used research from 2002-2010. A lot of recent factors could have changed the educational/social climate in a lot of schools. I like that this article looks at how crime rate is affecting education, while the first article looks at education affecting the crime

While looking through articles on this subject I find this man a lot! His journal article is about the effects of school-based crime prevention strategies that aim to reduce criminal opportunity. One thing that i like about his article is that he used self-report data from 2,644 seventh-grade students. These children were from 58 different schools to test which safety precautions reduce students victimization, risk perception, and fear of violence at school. He found that only one measure in school reduced fear and that was a metal detector. I would like to relate this to the last article in the sense of fear deriving from violence in schools (fear leads to violence that just leads to more fear?). I feel like one shortcoming is that there haven’t been enough studies that examined the factors of student academic