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Work Conditions and Juvenile Delinquency: Is Youth Employment Criminogenic?
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In this paper, the authors explored the relationship of working to delinquency among a sample of youths, drawn from the National Youth Survey, who were in school and between the ages of 12 and 19.Abstract:
In both public and scholarly circles, it often is assumed that employ ment is beneficial to the development of adolescents. To assess this claim, we explored the relationship of working to delinquency among a sample of youths, drawn from the National Youth Survey, who were in school and between the ages of 12 and 19. The analysis revealed that work conditions, especially the number of hours employed, were posi tively associated with delinquent involvement. We argue that these results are consistent with a critical criminological perspective, which would see juvenile employment within its structural context and be sen sitive to how the needs of youths are not served in the prevailing labor market. Accordingly, we caution against a policy agenda that views employment as a panacea for delinquency.read more
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Employment, peers, and life-course transitions
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Co-Offending and the Age-Crime Curve:
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Exposure to Situations Conducive to Delinquent Behavior The Effects of Time Use, Income, and Transportation
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the associations between delinquent behavior and three variables hypothesized to increase exposure to situations conducive to such behavior: unstructured socializing (time use), income, and private transportation.
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Low self-control and coworker delinquency
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a sample of employed high school seniors to assess the interaction between low self-control and coworker delinquency on occupational delinquency and found that the interaction term was a strong predictor of occupational delinquence, even after controlling for established predictors of delinquency.
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Unpacking the relationship between adolescent employment and antisocial behavior: a matched samples comparison*
Robert Apel,Shawn D. Bushway,Robert Brame,Amelia M. Haviland,Daniel S. Nagin,Raymond Paternoster +5 more
TL;DR: The authors used group-based trajectory modeling to stratify youths based on their developmental history of crime and substance abuse and found no overall effect of working on either criminal behavior or substance abuse.
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