New from PHDCN+: Long-term Consequences of Early Life Contexts and Criminal Legal Contact for Adult Well-Being

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN+) is an on-going longitudinal study of multiple birth cohorts of children living in Chicago in 1995 and followed for over 25 years. This panel presents three analyses focused on the long-term consequences of exposure to distinct childhood and adolescent contexts, including neighborhood violence, schools, and the criminal legal system. Paper 1 examines whether the effect of an officially recorded juvenile arrest on educational attainment lingers beyond high school through college completion. It also examines whether the effect is durable between eras with much different macro patterns of crime. Paper 2 examines the long-term physical and mental health consequences of exposure to gun violence, accounting for the fact that individuals may move out of violent neighborhoods in response to, or in anticipation of, the harms of gun violence. Paper 3 examines how the independent and interacting effects of school and neighborhood contexts during adolescence influence crime-related behavior into adulthood.

Sub Unit

• Area II. Perspectives on Crime / 2. Developmental and Life Course Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• The Great Leveler? Juvenile Arrest, College Attainment, and the Future of American Inequality - Garrett Baker, Duke University; David Kirk, University of Pennsylvania; Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University

• Mid-Life Health Consequences of Exposure to Gun Violence - Charles C. Lanfear, University of Cambridge; Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University; David Kirk, University of Pennsylvania

• Enduring Consequences of Adolescent Neighborhood and School Contexts for Adult Arrest - Nicolo Pinchak, Centre for Social Investigation, Nuffield College, University of Oxford; David Kirk, University of Pennsylvania

Chair

• Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University