What relation is there between crime and unemployment? This question has long bothered hundreds of legal workers and professionals, to the point where some facts are invented and others are ignored.
The I.
L.
O.
(International Conference of Labour Statisticians) defines the unemployed group as being above a certain age range and being available for work, seeking work and without work.
The relationship between criminals and the unemployed is very inconsistent.
Considering the low report rate of white-collar crimes, it becomes an even more fuzzy line to zoom in on.
The existing research certainly suggests that crime and incarceration are skewed towards the young male group, especially to those of ethnic identity.
But this statistic is only very slight in the big picture.
This group is also one of the most unemployed, but it may be hard to make any conclusions from these two statistics.
It could be a case of co-relation and not necessarily causation; that is, we can agree that this group is the most unemployed against the rest of the board and also commits the most crime, but one does not cause the other.
This group has the least advantages in life, some experts claim.
Additional research is certainly required, including standardized interviews among a large sample of those in this age group (young and of ethnicity) and submitted to an independent board for further review and scrupulous analysis.
Some authors, such as R.
Dahrendorf, contest that unemployment actually has an immediate and measurable effect on criminal activity by a person, and that once in the cycle, the prolonged criminal involvement is likely to cause an even longer stint out of the job market.
This cycle is very hard to break, he says, and it does take an arrest to set the offender straight.
At this point, it may be the state's desired choice to limit the habitual nature of some crimes by assigning a rehabilitation plan to this particular man or woman.
These are just some of the issues and statistical analysis reports regarding unemployment and its effects as they apply to criminal law.
For further reading, consult your local library or Amazon and look for titles such as "Recession, Crime and Punishment" published by Steven Box in 1987, and "The Corporate Prison: The Production of Crime and the Sale of Discipline" by Karyl K.
Kicenski.
Both are excellent reads that will demonstrate some of the aforementioned ideas in many ways.
The I.
L.
O.
(International Conference of Labour Statisticians) defines the unemployed group as being above a certain age range and being available for work, seeking work and without work.
The relationship between criminals and the unemployed is very inconsistent.
Considering the low report rate of white-collar crimes, it becomes an even more fuzzy line to zoom in on.
The existing research certainly suggests that crime and incarceration are skewed towards the young male group, especially to those of ethnic identity.
But this statistic is only very slight in the big picture.
This group is also one of the most unemployed, but it may be hard to make any conclusions from these two statistics.
It could be a case of co-relation and not necessarily causation; that is, we can agree that this group is the most unemployed against the rest of the board and also commits the most crime, but one does not cause the other.
This group has the least advantages in life, some experts claim.
Additional research is certainly required, including standardized interviews among a large sample of those in this age group (young and of ethnicity) and submitted to an independent board for further review and scrupulous analysis.
Some authors, such as R.
Dahrendorf, contest that unemployment actually has an immediate and measurable effect on criminal activity by a person, and that once in the cycle, the prolonged criminal involvement is likely to cause an even longer stint out of the job market.
This cycle is very hard to break, he says, and it does take an arrest to set the offender straight.
At this point, it may be the state's desired choice to limit the habitual nature of some crimes by assigning a rehabilitation plan to this particular man or woman.
These are just some of the issues and statistical analysis reports regarding unemployment and its effects as they apply to criminal law.
For further reading, consult your local library or Amazon and look for titles such as "Recession, Crime and Punishment" published by Steven Box in 1987, and "The Corporate Prison: The Production of Crime and the Sale of Discipline" by Karyl K.
Kicenski.
Both are excellent reads that will demonstrate some of the aforementioned ideas in many ways.
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