Crime scars: can recessions produce career criminals?

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/abstract.asp?index=4699

Brian Bell, Anna Bindler, Stephen Machin, July 2015

Abstract:

Recessions typically raise youth unemployment and leave longterm labour market ‘scars’ on the young people concerned. Research by Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin finds that they also have a disturbing and substantial impact in launching criminal careers.

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tags: unemployment crime; unemployment increases crime; effects of unemployment; unemployment results;