Get a Job : : Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime /

Get a Job : : Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime / / Robert D. Crutchfield.

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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 ha...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Crutchfield, Robert D.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ; 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 31 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Modern Misérables
  • 2. “Get a Job”
  • 3. Why Do They Do It?
  • 4. “I Don’t Want No Damn Slave Job!”
  • 5. “Life in the Hood”
  • 6. Lessons from the Hole in the Wall Gang
  • 7. Toward a More General Explanation of Employment and Crime
  • 8. A Tale of My Two Cities
  • Appendix. Data
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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