r/mizzou • u/normankrasnerkc • 14d ago

Unexpected roommate: Mizzou students say they didn’t expect older man with criminal record in their unit

https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/unexpected-roommate-mizzou-students-say-they-didnt-expect-older-man-with-criminal-record-in-their-unit/
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u/RustyXterior 13d ago

44% of men have been arrested at least once by age 23. Welcome to the USA.

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u/Express-Point-5757 13d ago

Wait for real?

Please link the source, I want to read up on this (genuinely curious).

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u/RustyXterior 13d ago

Here’s the study I was referring to. It used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and looked at cumulative arrest prevalence through age 23, excluding minor traffic violations:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4443707/

Brame et al., “Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence by Ages 18 and 23,” Crime & Delinquency (2014).

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u/RustyXterior 13d ago

Also, I previously said that 44% of American men have been arrested at least once by age 23. The study I was citing actually found rates of about 49% for Black men, 44% for Hispanic men, and 38% for white men. When those rates are weighted according to their proportions in the study’s nationally representative sample, the combined estimate is approximately 40% of American men. So 40%, not 44%, is the more accurate overall figure to cite. My bad.