Get a job : labor markets, economic opportunity, and crime / Robert D. Crutchfield.

By: Material type: TextSeries: New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law seriesPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2014Description: xii, 291 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814717073
  • 0814717071
  • 9780814717080
  • 081471708X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 4903.5 .U58 C78 2014
Contents:
Modern Mis�erables: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modern Mis�erables: 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.

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