Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2013
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814789308.003.0008
Abstract
This chapter turns to the response of the criminal justice system to neighborhood violence, in particular examining to what extent persistently high levels of incarceration can depress economic well-being and human capital in disadvantaged and racially segregated communities. A panel analysis of New York City neighborhoods between 1985 and 1996, a period in which the city's violent-crime rates both rose and fell sharply, provides evidence that high incarceration rates reduce income growth, educational attainment, and work experience in disadvantaged and racially segregated neighborhoods. To rectify this, targeted micro investment and housing development in such areas can break the connection between incarceration and economic and educational disadvantage.
Disciplines
Behavioral Economics | Criminology and Criminal Justice | Law
Recommended Citation
Jeffrey A. Fagan & Valerie West,
Incarceration and the Economic Fortunes of Urban Neighborhoods,
Economics and Youth Violence: Crime, Disadvantage, and Community, Richard Rosenfeld, Mark Edberg, Xiangming Fang & Curtis S. Florence (Eds.), Oxford University Press
(2013).
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