“Military conscription may affect both contemporaneous and future criminal behaviour through a number of channels. Contemporaneous crime may decrease if conscription incapacitates young men, i.e., if it keeps them engaged and isolated from society.” doh, you don’t say. Putting people in prison also reduces the crime rate.

Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime*

Link: https://academic.oup.com/ej/arti

Abstract. We study the causal effect of mandatory military conscription in Sweden on the criminal behaviour of men born in the 1970s. We find that military serv