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I guess we had different ideas of kids. This data is based on NLSY97, meaning the subjects were born between 1981 and 1985. [1] Still, doesn't that contradict

I guess we had different ideas of kids. This data is based on NLSY97, meaning the subjects were born between 1981 and 1985. [1] Still, doesn't that contradict your point about these results being based on a substantial difference from when you were a kid? As you point out, this study is based on exactly your cohort. Thus it's not a matter of policies nowadays leading to 40% arrest rates. That figure is based directly on the policies of the 90s. [1] http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy97.htm http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy97.htm

EpicEng 12y ago
90's and 00's, yes, but it's become even more extreme. I was arrested a couple of times as a teenager, but if I had done half the things as a teen now that I did back then I would probably have spent my formative years in juvie. I'm just saying, the trend is there. More and more kids get arrested for what I would argue is petty stuff that most kids do.
- morgante 12y ago
  > I'm just saying, the trend is there. More and more kids get arrested for what I would argue is petty stuff that most kids do. I don't disagree. I wholeheartedly abhor the criminalization of the current educational discipline regime. My only point is that unfortuntely this study is not itself sufficient to comment on that ridiculous escalation, given its use of decades-old data.