Labor Markets, Employment, and Crime
Author | : Robert D. Crutchfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Labor market |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert D. Crutchfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Labor market |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert D. Crutchfield |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1479821152 |
Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individuals who are marginalized from the labor market are more likely to commit crimes, and communities with more members who are marginal to the labor market have higher rates of crime. Yet, as Robert Crutchfield explains, contrary to popular expectations, unemployment has been found to be an inconsistent predictor of either individual criminality or collective crime rates. In Get a Job, Crutchfield offers a carefully nuanced understanding of the links among work, unemployment, and crime. Crutchfield explains how people’s positioning in the labor market affects their participation in all kinds of crimes, from violent acts to profit-motivated offenses such as theft and drug trafficking. Crutchfield also draws on his first-hand knowledge of growing up in a poor, black neighborhood in Pittsburgh and later working on the streets as a parole officer, enabling him to develop a more complete understanding of how work and crime are related and both contribute to, and are a result of, social inequalities and disadvantage. Well-researched and informative, Get a Job tells a powerful story of one of the most troubling side effects of economic disparities in America.
Author | : Robert D. Crutchfield |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1437930344 |
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. A study of how individuals¿ employ. and educational circumstance affects the likelihood of engaging in acts of common crime. Also studies how the characteristics of residential neighborhoods interact with individual characteristics to affect criminal involvement. The goal is to answer the following questions: (1) How do employment and job qualities effect individual young adults¿ (YA) involvement in crime?; (2) How do neighborhood characteristics effect YA involvement in criminal behavior?; (3) How are juvenile employ. and educ. related to delinquency?; (4) How do parents¿ labor market and educ. experiences affect juvenile delinquency? (5) Which, if any, neighborhood characteristics are assoc. with juveniles¿ involvement in crime?
Author | : Jared Bernstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Greater labor market opportunities result in lower crime rates, a clear link that is often ignored in policy debates on crime reduction. This study examines the labor market characteristics of the offender/ex-offender population and the labor market conditions these potential workers face. It identifies ex-offenders as a distinctly disadvantaged subset of the low-wage workforce : they have little education, weak job histories, and weak labor market attachment, plus the additional penalty of a criminal record. Even at a time when the overall economy is growing, workers in this sector face higher levels of un- and underemployment. This monograph argues fuller employment for ex-inmates will need innovative labor market solutions, including increases in the minimum wage, more education and training, and the expansion of work supports such as the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Author | : James Wilson Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert D. Crutchfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education and crime |
ISBN | : |
The intent of this project was to exam the relationship between labor market experience and crime. In particular it is a study how individuals' employment and educational circumstance affects the likelihood of engaging in acts of common crime. It also studies the characteristics of residential neighborhoods and how the interaction with individual characteristics to affect criminal involvement.
Author | : Richard Barry Freeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the labor market-crime and the sanctions-crime relations. It concludes that there is a labor market-crime link but that this link is not well estimated by existing studies and is weaker than the sanctions-crime link. The rise in crime in recent years does not appear to be greatly due to the performance of the labor market.
Author | : Elisabeth Lång |
Publisher | : Linköping University Electronic Press |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9176854639 |
The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of how several individual characteristics, namely education (years of schooling), health indicators (height, weight, smoking, alcohol consumption, and exercise), criminal behavior, and crime victimization, influence labor market outcomes in the short and long run. The first part of the thesis consists of three studies in which I adopt a within-twin-pair difference approach to analyze how education, health indicators, and earnings are associated with each other over the life cycle. The second part of the thesis includes two studies in which I use field experiments in order to test the employability of exoffenders and crime victims. The first essay, Learning for life?, describes an analysis of the education premium in earnings and health-related behaviors throughout adulthood among twins. The results show that the education premium in earnings, net of genetic inheritance, is rather small over the life cycle but increases with the level of education. The results also show that the education premium in health-related behaviors is mainly concentrated on smoking habits. The influences of education on earnings and health-related behaviors seem to work independently of each other, and there are no signs that health-related behaviors influence the education premium in earnings or vice versa. The second essay, Blowing up money?, details an analysis of the association between smoking and earnings in two different historical social contexts in Sweden: the 1970s and the 2000s. I also consider possible differences in this association in the short and long run as well as between the sexes. The results show that the earnings penalty for smoking is much stronger in the 2000s as compared to the 1970s (for both sexes) and that it is larger in the long run as compared to the short run (for men). The third essay, Two by two, inch by inch, describes an analysis of the height premium among Swedish twins. The results show that the height premium is relatively constant over the life cycle and that it is larger below median height for men and above median height for young women. The estimates are similar for monozygotic and dizygotic twins, indicating that environmentally and genetically induced height differences are similarly associated with earnings over the life cycle. The fourth essay, The employability of ex-offenders, published in IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2017), 6:6, details an analysis of whether male and female exoffenders are discriminated against when applying for jobs in the Swedish labor market. The results show that employers do discriminate against exoffenders but that the degree of discrimination varies across occupations. Discrimination against ex-offenders is pronounced in female-dominated and high-skilled occupations. The magnitude of discrimination against exoffenders does not vary by applicants’ sex. The fifth essay, Victimized twice?, describes an analysis of whether male and female crime victims are discriminated against when applying for jobs in the Swedish labor market. This study is the first to consider potential hiring discrimination against crime victims. The results show that employers do discriminate against crime victims. The discrimination varies with the sex of the crime victim and occupational characteristics and is concentrated among high-skilled jobs for female crime victims and among femaledominated jobs for male crime victims.
Author | : Thomas P. Wadsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Criminal behavior, Prediction of |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |