Effects of employment and unemployment on serious offending in a high-risk sample of men and women from ages 18 to 32 in the Netherlands

Verbruggen, Janna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-774X, Blokland, Arjan and Geest, Victor van der 2012. Effects of employment and unemployment on serious offending in a high-risk sample of men and women from ages 18 to 32 in the Netherlands. British Journal of Criminology 52 (5) , pp. 845-869. 10.1093/bjc/azs023

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Abstract

Using longitudinal data on the criminal careers of a group of high-risk men and women (N ī 540) who were institutionalized in a Dutch juvenile justice institution in the nineties, this article addresses the effects of (un)employment on crime. Results show that, for both men and women, employment rates are below average and stability in employment is low. Nevertheless, random effects models consistently show employment to reduce the estimated number of convictions for both men and women. Employment duration has an additional effect on crime, but only for men. Unemployment duration increases the estimated number of convictions for women, while slightly decreasing them for men.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice (CCLJ) Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform K Law > K Law (General)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0007-0955
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 09:05
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/73289

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