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Unemployment and Crime: An Objection to Professor Brenner's View
Thomas Orsagh,James Alan Fox +1 more
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This article is published in Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology.The article was published on 1980-01-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Unemployment.read more
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Rates of Crime and Unemployment: An Analysis of Aggregate Research Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the findings of 63 U-C studies, 40 of which involve data from the 1970s when unemployment rose dramatically and show that property crimes, 1970s data, and sub-national levels of aggregation produce consistently positive and frequently significant U-c results.
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Youth, Underemployment, and Property Crime: Differential Effects of Job Availability and Job Quality on Juvenile and Young Adult Arrest Rates
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between employment conditions and property-crime arrest rates of male juveniles and young adults, using age-specific state-level data from 1977-1980, compiled from raw arrest data of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and from the Census Bureau's annual March Current Population Survey.
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Unemployment and Crime: Toward Resolving the Paradox
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of female employment on crime in a part-riarchal society was investigated and it was shown that female employment has a strong positive effect on crime.
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Predicting Drug Arrest Rates: Conflict and Social Disorganization Perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a series of models of drug arrest rates for a sample of U.S. cities using 1989 data on illegal drug possession and trafficking arrests and socioeconomic data from the 1990 census, and compared predictions derived from social disorganization and conflict theories.
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Crime and Unemployment: Effects across Age and Race Categories:
TL;DR: Despite numerous studies, the nature of the unemployment-crime relationship remains controversial as discussed by the authors, and the relationship should be clearer for some segments of the population than for others, but is not clear for others.