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2 results foundAuthor: Lindo, Jason M. Title: Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Summary: Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam Era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find that draft eligibility increases incarceration for violent crimes but decreases incarceration for non-violent crimes among whites. This is particularly evident in 1979, where two-sample instrumental variable estimates indicate that military service increases the probability of incarceration for a violent crime by 0.34 percentage points and decreases the probability of incarceration for a nonviolent crime by 0.30 percentage points. We conduct two falsification tests, one that applies each of the three binding lotteries to unaffected cohorts and another that considers the effects of lotteries that were not used to draft servicemen. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012. 50p. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper Series; Working Paper 17818: Accessed February 6, 2012 at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17818.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17818.pdf Shelf Number: 123995 Keywords: Military ServiceViolent CrimeViolent Offenders |
Author: Siminski, Peter Title: Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries Summary: Combat is the most intense form of military service, but several aspects of the training experience, which explicitly prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia’s Vietnam-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court data from Australia’s three largest states, we seek to estimate the effect of army training on violent crime. Using various specifications, we find no evidence that military training causes violent crime, and our point estimates are always negative. In our preferred specification (using only non-deployed cohorts), we rule out with 95% confidence any positive violent crime effects larger than 3.6% relative to the mean. Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2013. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper No. 7152, 2013. 40p. Year: 2013 Country: Australia URL: Shelf Number: 127557 Keywords: Military ServiceMilitary VeteransViolent Crime (Australia) |