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Title Criminal behaviour from school to the workplace : untangling the complex relations between employment, education and crime / edited by Frank Weerman and Catrien Bijleveld
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 209 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour
Routledge studies in criminal behaviour
Contents Cover; Criminal Behaviour from School to the Workplace; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; About the editors; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Employment, education and crime: a complex field of research; Introduction; Background of the volume: five complicating issues; The contributions in this volume; A short overview of relevant theoretical perspectives; Previous studies on employment, education and offending; Final remarks; 2 The development of delinquency in adolescence: employment, gender, SES and ethnicity; Introduction; Method; Results
Discussion3 The relationship between school performance, delinquency and early school-leaving; Introduction; Research questions and hypotheses; Method; Results; Implications for policy and practice; 4 School, work and delinquency among older adolescents: exploring the consequences of different tracks in education and employment after secondary school; Introduction; Research questions; Method; Results; Discussion; 5 School, intensive work, excessive alcohol use and delinquency during emerging adulthood; Introduction; Current study; Data and methods; Results; Conclusion
6 Pathways to adulthood and the relation between employment, education and criminal behaviour: a latent class analysisIntroduction; Method; Results; Discussion; 7 Educational level, employment, financial support and crime: a longitudinal study of disadvantaged youths; Introduction; Method; Results; Discussion; Limitations, future research and implications for policy and practice; Appendix; 8 The effect of unemployment on crime in high-risk families in the Netherlands between 1920 and 2005; Introduction; Method; Data analytic strategies; Results; Conclusion and discussion; Appendix
9 Conclusion and discussion: main insights and remaining questionsIntroduction; A general overview of the empirical contributions; Main insights about the five issues; Comparison with previous studies; The theoretical meaning of our findings; An agenda for future research; Appendix A The Dutch school system; Appendix B Employment and the Dutch welfare state; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index
Summary This volume focuses on the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace: how employment and education are related to breaking the law and getting in contact with the criminal justice system. The contributors report results from several large scale and sophisticated studies conducted in the Netherlands that gathered rich data on employment, education and criminal behaviour. Each of the studies focuses on a particular period during the life course and particular risk categories. Taken together, they contribute to our understanding of how getting ou
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education and crime -- Netherlands
Crime prevention -- Netherlands
Unemployment -- Social aspects -- Netherlands
Juvenile delinquency -- Netherlands
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime prevention
Education and crime
Juvenile delinquency
Unemployment -- Social aspects
Netherlands
Form Electronic book
Author Weerman, Frank M., 1968-
Bijleveld, Catrien C. J. H
ISBN 1136700609
9781136700606
9780203670446
0203670442
9781136700538
1136700536
9781136700675
1136700676
Other Titles Criminal behavior from school to the workplace