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Title: Exploring the Relationship between Employment Stability and Desistance from Illicit Substance Use across Various Racial Categories
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Bounds, Christopher |
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Exploring the Relationship between Employment Stability and Desistance from Illicit Substance Use across Various Racial Categories Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2013 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Employment; Job Tenure; Racial Differences; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Sampson and Laub’s age-graded informal social control theory has generated considerable attention vying to become a leading explanation of criminal involvement across the life-course. It has spawned a number of criticisms and an equivocal body of research. Many of these criticisms have centered on their reliance upon the Glueck data - a dataset consisting of all White males born in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Using logistic regression, the current project explores whether job stability, a key factor highlighted by Sampson and Laub, is related to desistance of illicit substance use among a nationally representative sample born in the United States between 1957and 1964 – The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The findings are discussed in terms of the further specification of theoretical models recognizing distinct pathways to change and continuity of illicit substance use among various racial categories. |
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Bounds, Christopher. "Exploring the Relationship between Employment Stability and Desistance from Illicit Substance Use across Various Racial Categories." Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2013. |