Crime and Employment Research: A Continuing Deadlock?

McGahey, Richard

doi:10.1007/bf02900932

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“…Myers and Sabol (1987), building on research by 1930s pioneers Ruse and Kirchheimer, explored not only the individualistic impacts of labor market opportunities on criminal choices but the institutionalized and structural functions of imprisonment and incarceration across the business cycle. The perceptive commentary by Richard McGahey (1987) helped to cement the importance of moving away from the rational choice models of crime to understanding structural impediments that exist in both labor markets and in the criminal justice system that produce the observed associations between race and crime.…”

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Bringing Research on Race and Crime Into the 21st Century: Reflections From Over the Years

Myers

2020

The Review of Black Political Economy

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Bringing Research on Race and Crime Into the 21st Century: Reflections From Over the Years

Myers

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Property crime and unemployment: a new perspective

Lester¹

1995

Applied Economics Letters

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Vanagunas (1984) found a significant association between the unemployment rate of minority males and both motor vehicle theft and the commercial robbery rate. However, he presented no theoretical framework with which to explain these results. This paper attempts to provide a microeconomic foundation for the link between property crime and unemployment. The model is based on a cost-benefit analysis. It is unique in that the behaviour is viewed from the perspective of criminals rather than non-criminals. The empirical findings supported the hypothesis with some qualifications. Only the association between the unemployment rate and the larceny rate was positive and significant for the property crimes of the USA for the period of 1960-90.

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