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Title: Delinquency and Employment: Substitutions or Spurious Associations
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1. Crowley, Joan E.
Delinquency and Employment: Substitutions or Spurious Associations
Presented: Washington, DC, American Society of Criminology, 1981
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Educational Attainment; Employment; Self-Reporting; Unemployment

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The hypothesis that unemployment leads to crime is implicit in much of the policy work on employment. Data from the 1980 NLSY linking self-reports of crime and various indices of employment show that there is little direct effect, either of crime on employment or of employment on crime. Among high school youth, school experience seems much more important than labor force experience in the etiology of crime. Early transition out of childhood may be associated with both employment outcomes and with illegal behaviors. Relationships between crime and work may be mediated by education and other background factors.
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Crowley, Joan E. "Delinquency and Employment: Substitutions or Spurious Associations." Presented: Washington, DC, American Society of Criminology, 1981.