CRIM 101 Lecture 10: Crime and Employment
22 Sep 2016
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Nature of the workplace has changed significantly over last few decades. Better paying, full-time manufacturing jobs have been disappearing. Replaced by lower paying (often part-time) service jobs. Women at work: even married women, taking male roles. New technology: computer systems, cellphones and emails. Many theories of crime assume there is a relationship btwn unemployment and crime. Researchers have found a weak or even negative relationship btwn these two factors. Suggest that weak/negative relationship btwn unemployment and crime caused by fact that unemployed people have less disposable income. More likely to engage in leisure activities at home or within their own neighborhoods. When at home, act to protect their property from would-be offenders. Employed teenagers are more likely to be involved in crime than unemployed teenagers. Away from home more often, have their own money, may have their own transportation. Repeated contact with high risk groups: police officers, prison guards, probation officers, nurses, mental health workers, and welfare workers.
