Does child abuse cause crime? (Record no. 2712)

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Original cataloging agency WSS
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Personal name Currie, Janet
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Title Does child abuse cause crime?
Statement of responsibility, etc Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal
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Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge, MA
Name of publisher, distributor, etc National Bureau of Economic Research,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2006
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Extent electronic document (61 pages); PDF file: 300 KB
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Series statement NBER working paper
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General note NBER Working paper 12171
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Summary, etc Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. Our work addresses many limitations of the existing literature on child maltreatment. First, we use a large national sample, and investigate different types of abuse in a similar framework. Second, we pay careful attention to identifying the causal impact of abuse, by using a variety of statistical methods that make differing assumptions. These methods include: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), propensity score matching estimators, and twin fixed effects. Finally, we examine the extent to which the effects of maltreatment vary with socio-economic status (SES), gender, and the severity of the maltreatment. We find that maltreatment approximately doubles the probability of engaging in many types of crime. Low SES children are both more likely to be mistreated and suffer more damaging effects. Boys are at greater risk than girls, at least in terms of increased propensity to commit crime. Sexual abuse appears to have the largest negative effects, perhaps justifying the emphasis on this type of abuse in the literature. Finally, the probability of engaging in crime increases with the experience of multiple forms of maltreatment as well as the experience of Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation.--AUTHOR'S ABSTRACT
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Geographic name UNITED STATES
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650 27 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element CRIME
Source of heading or term FVC
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element CHILD ABUSE
Source of heading or term FVC
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Personal name Tekin, Erdal
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Title NBER Working paper 12171
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w12171.pdf">http://www.nber.org/papers/w12171.pdf</a>
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