Long-term unemployment and violent crime
Författare
Summary, in English
This study reinvestigates the relationship between unemployment and crime, but is the first to focus explicitly on the effects of long-term unemployment on crime. A unique finding is that long-term unemployment shows a strong association with violent crime, an effect which is greater than that of total unemployment on property crime in this and most previous studies. Long-term unemployment thus identifies a marginal group for committing crime (particularly violent crime) better than total unemployment, with the duration of unemployment plausibly increasing the strain that fosters violent behaviour.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2017-02
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-29
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Empirical Economics
Volym
52
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Physica Verlag
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Crime
- Long-term unemployment
- Unemployment
- Violent crime
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0377-7332