| NCJ Number: |
89826  |
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| Title: |
Linkages Between Employment and Crime - A Qualitative Study of Rikers Releasees (From Unemployment and Crime, P 240-283, 1982 - See NCJ-89821) |
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| Author(s): |
M Sviridoff; J W Thompson |
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| Corporate Author: |
Vera Institute of Justice
United States of America |
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| Date Published: |
1982 |
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| Page Count: |
39 |
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| Sponsoring Agency: |
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Washington, DC 20531
National Institute of Justice/
Rockville, MD 20849
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub
Washington, DC 20531
Vera Institute of Justice
New York, NY 10279 |
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| Grant Number: |
77-NI-99-0059 |
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| Sale Source: |
National Institute of Justice/
NCJRS paper reproduction
Box 6000, Dept F
Rockville, MD 20849
United States of America
NCJRS Photocopy Services
Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
United States of America |
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| Document: |
PDF |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United States of America |
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| Annotation: |
An examination of the linkages between employment and crime demonstrated by two samples of offenders suggests that the common perspective of unemployment-leads-to-crime is only one of a variety of possible linkages between working and doing crime. |
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| Abstract: |
Beginning in April 1978, 61 men about to be released from New York City's correctional facility at Rikers Island were interviewed, and 40 of the releasees were reinterviewed at least once within the next few months. The aim of the study was to develop questionnaires, probe issues associated with the relationship between employment and crime in a key high-risk population, and examine the problems of coping confronting releasees. Also interviewed was a sample of eight persons who were participants in an evaluation of the New York City Court Employment Program (CEP). An examination of the linkages between employment and crime for both samples showed different patterns of association between employment and crime at different stages of development. For both young and old, some alternation between crime and employment seems to prevail. For the youth, such alternation represents an exploration of possible income-producing options. For the older group, such alternation may reflect the perpetuation of adolescent patterns in a lengthy and delayed process of 'maturing out' of crime. Although the number of those who mixed employment and crime simultaneously was far smaller, the existence of such a group in the Rikers sample suggests that automatic opposition between employment and crime is a false one. Details of the study methodology and tabular data are appended. |
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| Index Term(s): |
Employment-crime relationships; Ex-offender employment; New York; Unemployment |
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