Get a Job - Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime

About the author

Robert D. Crutchfield is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He has served as a juvenile probation officer in Mercer County Pennsylvania and as a Parole Agent for the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole.

Summary

Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? This book offers a carefully nuanced understanding of the links among work, unemployment, and crime.

Product details

• Authors: Robert D. Crutchfield
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2014
• EAN: 9780814717073
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1707-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Dev; New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology