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Llad Phillips1 The Family and Delinquency
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Llad Phillips2 Themes in the Course Drugs: Marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco Prisons getting more money than education Unemployment rate for youth is rising and so is the crime rate Principle of unintended consequences Abandon deterrence for detentio: get the gulag GI Bill for WWII warriors: destroy the black family
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Llad Phillips4 5 Most Addictive: Heroin, Cocaine, Amphetamine, Alcohol, Nicotine: Newsweek Graph Source: Lancet Pot
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7 Recovery/Rehabilitation Adult population Sober Toxic 13 % of Adult Population In Need of Treatment, Drug & Alcohol Addiction, NJ 2003
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Llad Phillips8 Toxic Transition Model Sober Toxic Sober Toxic Sober Recovery rate Recidivism rate
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Llad Phillips9 Transition Model-2 P toxic (t=1) P Sober (t=1) P toxic (t=2) P Sober (t=2 P toxic = 0.80 P sober = 0.20
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Llad Phillips10 Transition Model-3
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Llad Phillips12 Pew Center on the States
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Llad Phillips13 Crime rates Beginning to Rise
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Llad Phillips15 16-19 Year olds
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Llad Phillips16 Lauren Spector
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Llad Phillips17 The Family and Delinquency What is the role of the family in causing or preventing delinquency? What is the role of the family in causing or preventing delinquency? How important is the family in considering possible causes of delinquency? How important is the family in considering possible causes of delinquency?
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Llad Phillips18 The Importance of Causality A theme in this course
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Reference: Lecture Six
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Reference: Lecture Four
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Llad Phillips21 Expenditures per Capita Offenses Per Capita Crime Control Technology South Dakota North Dakota 0.025 Index crimes per capita $100 Total cost = expenditures per capita Total cost = damages to victims 0.050 Total cost = $200 per capita = damages to victims = loss rate*0.05 so loss rate = $4,000 per Index Crime in South Dakota $200 $0 0 High loss rate state
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Llad Phillips22 CJS $ Per FBI Index Offense Vs. Income
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Llad Phillips24 Family Education System Community Social Institutions Shaping Youth
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Llad Phillips25 “The Rotten Kid Theorem” Reference: Jack Hirshleifer, “The Expanding Domain of Economics” Reference: Jack Hirshleifer, “The Expanding Domain of Economics” Figure 1
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Llad Phillips26 Daughter’s Income Father’s Income
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Llad Phillips27 Daughter’s Income, Y D Father’s Income, Y F Daughter’s Selfish Preferences: U D = U D (Y D ) Good Better Best
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Llad Phillips28 Daughter’s Income Father’s Income Family Joint Income Opportunities When Both the Child and Parent Agree
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Llad Phillips29 R Short-sighted selfish daughter prefers point R Daughter’s Income Father’s Income
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Llad Phillips30 Daughter’s Income Father’s Income Family Income = Daughter’s Income + Father’s Income
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Father’s Income R J Daughter’s Income Family Income Is Maximum At Point J
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Llad Phillips32 How Does the Parent Induce the Selfish Child to Act in the Family Interest? Did King Lear Have It Right?
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Llad Phillips33 Daughter’s Income Father’s Income Father’s Altruistic Preferences: U F = U F (Y D, Y F )
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Llad Phillips34 Why Does The Parent Care For The Child? Darwinian (evolutionary) motive: survival of the genes Darwinian (evolutionary) motive: survival of the genes
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Father’s Income R J Daughter’s Income A If the father is sufficiently altruistic, then the daughter’s enlightened self-interest is to prefer point A, and she can be induced to behave in a cooperative way, allowing point J that leads to point A
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Father’s Income R J Daughter’s Income B If the father is insufficiently altruistic, then the daughter will prefer point R to point B and, as a result, family income and fortunes will be lower
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Llad Phillips37 So, Love, Not Greed, Makes the World Go ‘Round In what kind of environment does love and caring flourish? In what kind of environment does love and caring flourish? both biological parents are present educated, enlightened self-interest a family with enough time and resources to care for one another
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Llad Phillips38 Trends Affecting Families Changes in Family Structure
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Source: US Statistical Abstract
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Llad Phillips40 Source: Center for Disease Control, CDC Marriage Rates
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Llad Phillips41 Number of Divorces and Children Affected Source: Center for Disease Control, CDC
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Llad Phillips42 Age Specific Divorce Rates, men and Women Source: Center for Disease Control, CDC
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Llad Phillips43 Divorce Rates by Duration of Marriage Source: Center for Disease Control, CDC
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Source: US Statistical Abstract
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Source: Glenn C. Loury, Ch 1 of Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention, eds. James Q. Wilson and Glenn C. Loury
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Llad Phillips55 Post World War II Phenomenon “In 1925, approximately 85 perent of black families living in Harlem were intact, and the teenage mother raising her children alone was virtually unknown...” “In 1925, approximately 85 perent of black families living in Harlem were intact, and the teenage mother raising her children alone was virtually unknown...” Source: Glenn C. Loury, Ch 1 of Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention, eds. James Q. Wilson and Glenn C. Loury
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Llad Phillips58 Eric Monkkonen
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Llad Phillips59 Homicide as an index of Crime
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Llad Phillips60 As Homicide Goes, So Goes Violence
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Source: Glenn C. Loury, Ch 1 of Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention, eds. James Q. Wilson and Glenn C. Loury
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Source: Glenn C. Loury, Ch 1 of Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention, eds. James Q. Wilson and Glenn C. Loury
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Llad Phillips64 Birth Rates for Unmarried Women By Age of Mother Source: Center for Disease Control, CDC
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Llad Phillips65 Per Cent Low Birth Weight By Age of Mother Source: Center for Disease Control, CDC
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Llad Phillips66 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth survey of 14-23 year olds survey of 14-23 year olds self-report information about contact with the criminal justice system for -1979 self-report information about contact with the criminal justice system for -1979 ever stopped by the police ever charged with a crime ever convicted of a crime family income family income family structure when youth was age 14 family structure when youth was age 14
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14-23 years of age Report: never stopped Report: ever stopped 28.5% Report: ever charged 17.4% Report: never charged Report: never convicted Report: ever convicted 10.1% National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)
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Llad Phillips68 NLSY: Family Structure, Age 14 4,927 boys and young men, ages 14-23 Source: William Comanor and Llad Phillips, “The Effect of Family Structure on Teen Delinquency”
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Llad Phillips69 NLSY: Family Structure, Age 14 3119 girls and young women, ages 14-19, never married Source: William Comanor and Llad Phillips, “The Effect of Family Structure on Teen Delinquency”
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Llad Phillips70 Viewpoints About the Family and Delinquency Travis Hirschi: a weak child-parent bond or attachment explains delinquency(1969) Travis Hirschi: a weak child-parent bond or attachment explains delinquency(1969) Joseph Rankin: homes with both biological parents missing explains running away, truancy, and auto theft(1983) Joseph Rankin: homes with both biological parents missing explains running away, truancy, and auto theft(1983) Sheppard Kellam, M. Ensminger, and R. J. Turner: Being raised by a mother alone explains delinquency(1977) Sheppard Kellam, M. Ensminger, and R. J. Turner: Being raised by a mother alone explains delinquency(1977) Source: Glenn C. Loury, Ch 1 of Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention, eds. James Q. Wilson and Glenn C. Loury
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Llad Phillips71 Themes for this lecture
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Llad Phillips72 So, Love, Not Greed, Makes the World Go ‘Round In what kind of environment does love and caring flourish? In what kind of environment does love and caring flourish? both biological parents are present educated, enlightened self-interest a family with enough time and resources to care for one another
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Llad Phillips73 The Importance of Social Institutions Family: social control; human capital Family: social control; human capital School: social control; human capital School: social control; human capital Religious organizations: moral compliance Religious organizations: moral compliance Community groups and centers Community groups and centers
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Llad Phillips74 Questions
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Llad Phillips75 Question: Why are people violent?
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Llad Phillips76 Before the agricultural societies in Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley, people were hunters and gatherers and shepherds and tended to fear strangers (And fight them) Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers, A Natural History of Economic Life(2004) Princeton U. After people settled down as farmers they needed social institutions to help them interact with strangers Markets allowed people to deal productively with strangers Legal systems and governments allowed settlement of disputes Adam Smith; The Wealth of Nations(1776) “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” Before the agricultural societies in Mesopotamia and the Nile Valley, people were hunters and gatherers and shepherds and tended to fear strangers (And fight them) Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers, A Natural History of Economic Life(2004) Princeton U. After people settled down as farmers they needed social institutions to help them interact with strangers Markets allowed people to deal productively with strangers Legal systems and governments allowed settlement of disputes Adam Smith; The Wealth of Nations(1776) “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
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Llad Phillips77 THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
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Llad Phillips78 What Leads to the Loss of Social Control?
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Llad Phillips79 Social Control of Citizenry Civil law and authority Civil law and authority First line of defense: moral compliance and good citizenship Second line of defense: deterrence (the threat of punishment) Third line of defense: detention Martial law and authority Martial law and authority Fourth line of defense: National Guard and the Army
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Llad Phillips80 Percent Control Moral Compliance DeterrenceDetention Riot Civil Law Martial Law National Guard Schematic
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Llad Phillips81 Why Is the Imprisonment Rate So High in the USA? 0.74 % 0.74 %
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Llad Phillips82 The U.S. Incarceration Rate is Higher than for Russia, and South Africa; 7 times Italy and 8 times France
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Llad Phillips83 Is It Because the US Murder Rate Is So High?
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Llad Phillips84 #24 USA 0.04 per 1000 http://www.nationmaster.com/
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Llad Phillips85 Is It Because the US Crime Rate Is So High?
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Llad Phillips87 What Are We Afraid Of?
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Llad Phillips88 Percent Control Moral Compliance DeterrenceDetention Riot Civil Law Martial Law National Guard 0.74% Prison
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Llad Phillips89 We Are In the Third Line of Defense: Detention Are we close to the edge? Are we close to the edge? Are we in danger of slipping out of civil authority? Are we in danger of slipping out of civil authority? Instances- 1992: LA riot: worse than the 1965 Watts riot 13 dead 192 injured Governor Pete Wilson activated more than 2000 National Guardsmen, mostly military police, to secure areas in Los Angeles
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Llad Phillips90 That’s All Folks
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