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1 results foundAuthor: Diaz, Carlos Title: Leaders in Juvenile Crime Summary: Abstract This paper presents a new theory of crime where leaders transmit a crime technology and act as a role model for other criminals. We show that, in equilibrium, an individual's crime effort and crime decisions depend on the geodesic distance to the leader in his or her network of social contacts. By using data on friendship networks among U.S. high-school students, we structurally estimate the model and find evidence supporting its predictions. In particular, by using a definition of a criminal leader that is exogenous to the network formation of friendship links, we find that the longer is the distance to the leader, the lower is the criminal activity of the delinquents and the less likely they are to become criminals. This result highlights the importance of the closeness centrality of the leaders in explaining criminal behaviors. We finally perform a counterfactual experiment that reveals that a policy that removes all criminal leaders from a school can, on average, reduce criminal activity by about 20% and the individual probability of becoming a criminal by 10%. Details: London, UK: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2018. 48p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 21, 2019 at: https://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/13120.html Year: 2018 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13120 Shelf Number: 154329 Keywords: Crime Technology Criminal Leader Delinquents Juvenile Crime Juvenile Delinquency Juvenile Offenders Leaders Role Model Social Contacts Social Network |