Long-term unemployment and violent crime
(2017) In Empirical Economics 52(1). p.1-29- Abstract
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.
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- author
- Nordin, Martin LU and Almén, Daniel
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-02
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Crime, Long-term unemployment, Unemployment, Violent crime
- in
- Empirical Economics
- volume
- 52
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 1 - 29
- publisher
- Physica Verlag
- external identifiers
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- wos:000393819300001
- scopus:84962159954
- ISSN
- 0377-7332
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00181-016-1068-6
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 2ff24f0e-82a9-4e51-8271-e9ec420e7605
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- 2016-06-08 08:46:09
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title = {{Long-term unemployment and violent crime}},
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doi = {{10.1007/s00181-016-1068-6}},
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