Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I.

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“…The ubiquity of these tales across time and place suggests that people are captivated by the issue of war’s impact on the soldiers who fight them and the communities to which they return. 1 This is no less true of scholars who have examined in great quantity and depth everything from the effects of combat experience on violence, domestic abuse, and criminal behavior (recent examples include Anderson & Rees, 2015; Cesur & Sabia, 2016; Gartner & Kennedy, 2018; MacManus et al, 2015; Teachman & Tedrow, 2016) to the physical and mental health effects of wartime service (recent examples include Griffith, 2019; Godfrey et al, 2015; Lee et al, 2019; Nassif et al, 2019) to how combat might impact the political attitudes and behavior of veterans (Blattman, 2009; Grossman et al, 2015; Horowitz & Stam, 2014; Teigen, 2006). Given the demanding tempo of military operations since 9/11—with the United States alone having deployed roughly 3 million troops over the last 20 years (Wenger et al, 2018)—it is particularly important to understand how war impacts veterans and how they, in turn, affect our society.…”

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Military Service, Combat Experience, and Civic Participation

Wilson

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2020

Armed Forces & Society

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Military service is a highly social—and potentially socializing—experience. However, the long-term social effect of military service is a little-studied topic, and some have dismissed any direct impact of service on civic participation. Using data from a large, national survey, our estimates show, in contrast, that the likelihood and intensity of group participation is higher among veterans than other men and that combat veterans have the highest level of participation. Mettler argued that education funded through the GI Bill gave veterans both resources (“civic capacity”) and a desire to reciprocate to society (“civic predisposition”) for the generous benefits they received, but she did not allow for the possibility that service itself could also increase both civic capacity and predisposition. Furthermore, our estimates confirm that education is strongly associated with higher civic participation and that the association between military service and participation is largely independent of education.

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Military Service, Combat Experience, and Civic Participation

Wilson

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2020

Armed Forces & Society

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“…Of particular concern is the fact that military troops return specifically to military bases and the timing of this return is used for the construction of the variable eqp t . Numerous studies have shown that conscription into the military and exposure to combat situations may have subsequent effects on violent and criminal behavior (Rohlfs (2010); Galiani, Rossi and Schargrodsky (2011); Sreenivasan et al (2013); Anderson and Rees (2015); 15 Results are reported in Table 2 comparing column "Treated (1)" with "Not Treated (3)". I address this issue in an empirical framework where the only comparison used to identify the effect of militarization on violent crime is between police departments that differ in the closeness to disposition centers, and not in their closeness to a military base.…”

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Violent Crime and the Overmilitarization of US Policing

Masera

2021

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

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Using new data at the police department level, I propose an identification strategy for estimating the causal effect that police militarization has on reducing violent crime. I show that previous estimates are likely to be contaminated by unobserved factors that simultaneously determine militarization and violent crime. Upon addressing this issue, I find a point estimate that is 20 times larger than those estimated previously. I then find that one-fourth of the effect of militarization is due to the displacement of violent crime to neighboring areas. Police departments overmilitarize because they do not consider this externality. These new findings have significant implications for the policy debate concerning the costs and benefits of police militarization (JEL H56, H76, K42).

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“…Another example is Dohrenwend et al (2004), who document that 70.9% of the US male Vietnam veterans appraised the impact of their service on their present lives as mainly positive. For military service during the AVF era, Anderson and Rees (2015) document that units that were never-deployed contributed more to community violent crime (for instance, murders and rapes) relative to the contribution of the units that were deployed. The positive impacts of violence exposure on post-military service life may be explained by the posttraumatic growth xxvii effect of wartime combats on veterans (Maguen et al, 2006;Forstmeier et al, 2009), which may in addition improve veterans' post-service adaptation to civilian life and reduce their tendency to commit crimes.…”

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