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Figure 2. Odds of Arrest by Self-Reported Offending and Cohort Source: Authors’ compilation based on the NLSY (, ). Note: Self-reported crime does not include drug use. Analysis limited to those respondents at least eighteen years of age. The 1979 cohort analysis excludes military and low-SES white oversamples. Analysis is unweighted; analysis with weights is not different.
Figure 2.

Odds of Arrest by Self-Reported Offending and Cohort

Source: Authors’ compilation based on the NLSY (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014, 2015).

Note: Self-reported crime does not include drug use. Analysis limited to those respondents at least eighteen years of age. The 1979 cohort analysis excludes military and low-SES white oversamples. Analysis is unweighted; analysis with weights is not different.

Direct correspondence to: Vesla M. Weaver at vesla@jhu.edu, Departments of Political Science and Sociology, 338 Mergenthaler Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 22181; Andrew Papachristos at avp@northwestern.edu, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University; and Michael Zanger-Tishler at michael. zanger-tishler@yale.edu.

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