The Effect of Prior Records on Career Earnings

Jon Wertheim: I think it's very hard to find discrete explanations for national trends. But a lot of the increase that you see in incarceration rates and the fact that the people that are coming in front of the criminal assistance now have much higher, much longer records. And what that does is it creates a situation where if you expose a generation to lots of crime because they come of age during the crime boom,. They're going to be exposed to the criminal justice system at much higher rates for the remainder of their lives. He says we don't fully understand the consequences of those things and they last a long time.Wertheim: San Francisco seems to be anlier even among national