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Long-term unemployment and violent crime

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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.

Publishing year

2017-02

Language

English

Pages

1-29

Publication/Series

Empirical Economics

Volume

52

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Physica Verlag

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Crime
  • Long-term unemployment
  • Unemployment
  • Violent crime

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0377-7332