ion specifications that controlled for preferences or tastes of different communities. For example, average family incomes tended to reduce crime even when taking into account the shares of the local young populations that were composed of African-Americans, divorced or single mothers, and immigrants. In the words of Fleisher (1966, 121),"in attempting to estimate t/e effect of income on delinquency, it is important to consider the effects of both normal family incomes and deviations from normal due to unemployment." 4 Ehrlich (1981, 311-313) showed that the reduction in crime that follows the rehabilitation and/or incapacitation of past offenders is partially compensated by the entry or teentry of new offenders into the market, attracted by the temporary increase in the returns from crime that follows the departure of individual offenders. The author demonstrates that while the aggregate response of the supply of offenses to the removal of past offenders--through incapacitation or re
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