Get a Job : Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law ;
11 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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