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Employment: Arrest Rate, Long-Term |
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Employment programs reduce arrest rates for young adults, but this effect
tends to disappear once youths leave the programs. Participation in
JOBSTART, a community-based program targeted toward school dropouts,
reduced arrest rates significantly one year after participants were
assigned to the program (JS2). Job Corps also reduced arrests,
convictions, and incarcerations in the first year after assignment to the
program (JC). However the impacts disappeared after the first year (JC).
In the longer term, programs show no significant reduction in arrest
rates; sometimes, in fact, participants experience an increase in arrest
rates. For example, participants in the JTPA evaluation did not have
significantly different arrest rates 21 and 36 months after being assigned
at random to the program; furthermore, young men without an arrest record
at the time of assignment experienced an almost 11 percentage point
increase (JTPA). Job Corps and JOBSTART ceased to make a difference in
arrest rates by the long-term follow-up studies (JS2).
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