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The Voting Behavior of Young Disenfranchised Felons: Would They Vote if They Could?

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This paper utilizes two nationally representative surveys to study the voting behavior of young adult criminals. We find significant differences in voter turnout and registration rates of criminals and noncriminals. According to the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, just 26% of ever incarcerated individuals voted in the 2004 Presidential election; these individuals were thirty-one percentage points less likely to vote than nonincarcerated individuals. Regressions of voting on arrest and incarceration and a large set of observable characteristics indicate that analyses based on data sets excluding measures of criminal history will overestimate voter turnout rates by six to nineteen percentage points. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.

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  • Mark Lopez, 2010. "The Voting Behavior of Young Disenfranchised Felons: Would They Vote if They Could?," American Law and Economics Review, American Law and Economics Association, vol. 12(2), pages 265-279.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:amlawe:v:12:y:2010:i:2:p:265-279
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    1. Marc Meredith & Michael Morse, 2014. "Do Voting Rights Notification Laws Increase Ex-Felon Turnout?," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 651(1), pages 220-249, January.
    2. Klumpp, Tilman & Mialon, Hugo M. & Williams, Michael A., 2017. "The Voting Rights of Ex-Felons and Election Outcomes in the United States," Working Papers 2017-3, University of Alberta, Department of Economics.
    3. Lovenheim, Michael F. & Owens, Emily G., 2014. "Does federal financial aid affect college enrollment? Evidence from drug offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 1-13.
    4. Murat C. Mungan, 2017. "Over-incarceration and disenfranchisement," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 172(3), pages 377-395, September.

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