NCJ Number
121012
Journal
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology Volume: 22 Issue: 3 Dated: (September 1989) Pages: 136-150
Date Published
1989
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This paper attempts to locate changes in young people's involvement in crime, and the policing of young people, within the context of a changing political economy and the broken transitions experienced by a significant proportion of young men and young women.
Abstract
It begins by discussing how many young working class people have been excluded from the formal waged economy due to structural changes in the labour market. The paper then explores the relationship between the "cash crisis" affecting many unemployed school leavers, and their income and lifestyle options in the spheres of the informal waged economy, the informal unwaged economy, and the criminal economy. (Author abstract)