RT Article
T1 Unemployment and the dynamics of offender populations
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 11
IS 3
SP 231
OP 245
A1 Collins, Mark F.
A2 Weatherburn, Donald James 1951-
LA English
YR 1995
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764278259
AB This paper models the increase in the participation rate of criminal behavior as either the initiation rate or the career length of criminals changes in response to increases in unemployment. Even with large instantaneous increases in unemployment, the models show a very slow increase in the criminal participation rate, giving a possible explanation of the failure of many studies to demonstrate a link between unemployment and crime levels.
K1 Poisson model
K1 career length
K1 initiation rate
K1 Unemployment
DO 10.1007/BF02221138