Crime and the Labor Market /
Freeman, Richard B.
Crime and the Labor Market / Richard B. Freeman. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1982. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w1031 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w1031. .
November 1982.
Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the labor market-crime and the sanctions-crime relations. It concludes that there is a labor market-crime link but that this link is not well estimated by existing studies and is weaker than the sanctions-crime link. The rise in crime in recent years does not appear to be greatly due to the performance of the labor market.
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Crime and the Labor Market / Richard B. Freeman. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1982. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w1031 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w1031. .
November 1982.
Much work on crime has focused on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the labor market-crime and the sanctions-crime relations. It concludes that there is a labor market-crime link but that this link is not well estimated by existing studies and is weaker than the sanctions-crime link. The rise in crime in recent years does not appear to be greatly due to the performance of the labor market.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.