Get a job : labor markets, economic opportunity, and crime / / Robert D. Crutchfield.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : New York University Press,, [2014] Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2021 ©[2014] |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Modern Miserables: labor market influences on crime
- "Get a job": the connection between work and crime
- Why do they do it?: the potential for criminality
- "I don't want no damn slave job!": the effects of lack of employment opportunities
- "Life in the hood": how social context matters
- Lessons from the hole in the wall gang
- Toward a more general explanation of employment and crime
- A tale of my two cities.