The Differing Effects of Juvenile Arrest on Employment: How Race, Class, and Arrest Type Matter

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Abstract

The bulk of research assessing the impact of criminal justice involvement on labor market outcomes looks primarily at aggregated general measures of arrest and incarceration that do not distinguish between arrest types. This general categorization may miss patterns and effects that exist for different types of arrest. Using longitudinal data, this article focuses on the impact of juvenile drug arrests on labor market outcomes in early adulthood, and compares those effects to violent and property arrests. The preliminarily results indicate that drug arrest are more consequential for the employment outcomes of youth, especially Black and Latino youth.

Author

• Mariam Ashtiani, University of California-Irvine