@article{a3a280ed984544d9b1d0f6c9caaca4e2,
title = "Age Gradient in Women{\textquoteright}s Crime: The Role of Welfare Reform",
abstract = "We investigate how welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s shaped the age gradient in women{\textquoteright}s property crime arrests. Using Federal Bureau of Investigation data, we investigated the age-patterning of effects of welfare reform on women{\textquoteright}s arrests for property crime, the type of crime that welfare reform has been shown to affect. We found that welfare reform reduced women{\textquoteright}s property crime arrests by about 4%, with particularly strong effects for women ages 25 to 29, slightly stronger effects in states with stricter work incentives, and much stronger effects in states with high per capita criminal justice expenditures.",
keywords = "age gradient, connections with welfare system, economic marginality, female criminality, women and social policy, women{\textquoteright}s desistance",
author = "Hope Corman and Dave, {Dhaval M.} and Reichman, {Nancy E.}",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported in part by a grant to Hope Corman at Rider University by the Charles Koch Foundation. It was also supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health under award number UL1TR003017; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Health Resources and Service Administration under award number U3DMD32755; and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its support of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (Grant 74260). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2021.",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1177/1557085121991670",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "631--657",
journal = "Feminist Criminology",
issn = "1557-0851",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "5",
}