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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crutchfield, Robert D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2014.
Colección:New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modern Misérables: 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.