Charter Schools, Catholic Schools, and Crime
Charter Schools, Catholic Schools, and Crime
This chapter addresses implications for urban neighborhoods of both (1) the rapid disappearance of Catholic schools, and (2) the rise of charter schools. Previous chapters linked Catholic school closures to increased disorder and crime, and decreased social cohesion, in Chicago neighborhoods. This chapter turns to two unanswered questions. First, do the results reflect the work that open Catholic schools do as neighborhood institutions or a “loss effect?” Second, do the results find “school effects” generally or “Catholic school effects” in particular? The chapter begins to answer both questions by comparing the effects of open Catholic and charter schools on neighborhood crime rates. Police beats with open Catholic schools have lower rates of serious crime than those without one. Usually, a charter appears to have no statistically significant effect on crime rates.
Keywords: charter schools, school closures, Catholic schools, disorder, social cohesion, crime
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