CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Relative Deprivation, Social Disorganization Theory
21 Apr 2013
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Nature of the workplace has changed significantly over the last few decades. Better paying, full-time manufacturing jobs have been disappearing. Replaced by lower paying (often part time) service jobs. Many theories of crime e. g. , anomie theory, relative deprivation theory, social disorganization theory, - assume there is a relationship between unemployment and crime. Researchers have found weak or even negative relationship between these two factors. Evidence suggests that employed teenagers are more likely to be involved in crime than unemployed teenagers. Away from home more often, have their own money, may have their own transportation. Routine activities/opportunity theorists suggest that weak or negative relationship between unemployment and crime caused by the fact that unemployed people have less disposable income. More likely to engage in leisure activities at home or within their own neighborhoods (avoiding offenders) At home or close to their home, and thus able to protect their property from would-be offenders (provide capable guardianship)
