Work and Crime: An Exploration Using Panel Data.

• Author: Witte, Ann Dryden

Using data for a cohort sample of young men, we find that working and going to school both significantly decrease the probability of committing criminal acts,

and by virtually identical amounts. Parochial school education and higher IQ also are significantly associated with lower criminal proclivities, but a high school degree has no significant effect. In conjunction with other research, these findings...