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Alexander Lee

Dr. Martha Sherman

Crim250W

2/28/2020

 Will A Person's Education Level Affect His Possibility of Committing A Crime?

A well-established research on the correlation between education and criminality by Lochner (2020) brings out interesting results on this issue. The researcher examined the changes in the compulsory school learning (CSL) laws that ensure individuals are forced to stay in school longer than they would voluntarily choose to. Also, he examines how policy-induced measures help reduce crime by enhancing awareness creation and focus on education to provide platform for understanding the society in wider perspective. Additionally, he looked into the aspects of wage in the organizations as a direct influence of good lifestyles free from criminal activities. With all these critical points analyzed in the study, it became evident that education helps curb criminality by a substantive amount in the society (Wright et al. 2001).

First, the CSL laws confirmed that education has influence in eradicating criminal activities since the individuals were actively engaged in learning for considerable period of time. Then, they can apply knowledge obtained in school to undertake innovative practices. The innovative practices will provide incomes to them thus opting not to engage in criminal activities. Secondly, in the aspect of classic Becker model of crime, individuals who have secured jobs from education will opt to focus on work to improve their productivity and make their lives better. In this case, they will analyze the cost-benefits of employment and criminality (Cho, 2011). Since employment provides wages that sustains their lives, they opt to avoid criminality since risks include lack of freedom, jail term and death (Brown, 2001). Lastly, engaged individuals in schools learning or in workplace, lacks adequate time to allocate for criminal activities. Thus, it is evident education greatly lowers criminal behaviors (Cook & Kang, 2016).

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Cook, P. J., & Kang, S. (2016). Birthdays, schooling, and crime: Regression-discontinuity analysis of school performance, delinquency, dropout, and crime initiation. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(1), 33-57.

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Lochner, L. (2020). Education and crime. In The Economics of Education (pp. 109-117). Academic Press.

Lochner, L., & Moretti, E. (2004). The effect of education on crime: Evidence from prison inmates, arrests, and self-reports. American economic review, 94(1), 155-189.

Lochner, L. (2004). Education, work, and crime: A human capital approach. International Economic Review, 45(3), 811-843.

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Wright, B. R. E., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., & Silva, P. A. (2001). The effects of social ties on crime vary by criminal propensity: A life‐course model of interdependence. Criminology, 39(2), 321-348.