Youth crime and delinquency in and out of school

Janine Boshoff, Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: This paper combines ten years of idiosyncratic variation in school closure dates for all secondary schools in England with administrative records of educational and criminal trajectories linked at the individual level to study the impact of the school schedule on the dynamics of youth crime. When school is not in session, students commit more property offences, more serious violent offences and fewer minor violent offences. Thefts, robberies and violent assaults drive these effects. This is novel evidence of strong incapacitation effects from the protective factor of schooling which affects not only the incidence of violence, but also its severity.

Keywords: crime; school attendance; exclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04-10
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Working Paper: Youth Crime and Delinquency In and Out of School (2025)
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