Kelly Mascari

 Are there more crimes committed by non High School graduates than High School graduates?

 I expected to find that in fact non high school grads do commit more crimes than a person who graduated high school.  It is a statistical fact that high school dropouts commit 75% of crimes (Moretti).  High School dropouts are more likely to become involved in crime  State Prison inmates without a high school diploma and those with a GED were more likely to be repeat offenders than those with a diploma (Harlow)  Correctional populations report lower educational attainment than do those in the general population. An estimated 40% of State Prison inmates, 27% of Federal inmates, 47% of inmates in local jails, and 31% of those serving probation sentences had not completed high school or its equivalent while about 18% of the general population failed to attain high school graduation (Harlow)

 Lochner, Lance, and Enrico Moretti. "The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports." AEAweb:. American Economic Review, Web. 20 Nov  "11 Facts About High School Dropout Rates." DoSomething.org. Do Something, 26 Feb Web. 20 Nov  Moretti, Enrico. “Crime Doesn’t Pay. But Diplomas do.” School Scheduling Associates. Web. 20 Nov  Harlow, Caroline. “Education and Correctional Populations.” Bureau of Justice Statistics. Jan Web. 20 Nov  Staff, SLJ. “Crime Linked to Dropout Rates.” School Library Journal. 27 Aug Web. 20 Nov

 The data that I used was the data from lab 4 which is data on education and crime. The data provides numerical statistics pertaining to the different levels of education and crime. Included in the data are various crimes committed, educational level, ethnicity, and gender of the individuals committing the various crimes. Based on the educational levels, ethnicity and gender, there are some statistics that indicate no crime was committed.

 Steps  Insert, Pivot Table (insert into new sheet)  Drag HSGRAD into row labels  Drag Any crime into column labels and into value labels Type over 1 as crime committed, 0 as no crime committed  Right click, show as percent of row total  Remove all blanks  Repeat steps for each different crime committed  Insert Column Chart for each pivot table (drug crime, property crime, violent crime, any crime)

 After doing the literature review, and looking at the charts that I made from the data. It proves that what I expected to find was correct. That non high school graduates do commit more crimes than that of a person who graduated high school. On the charts it shows that in every category of crime, whether it be drug crime, property crime, violent crime, or any crime, the non high school graduate percentage was higher.