Abstract

Research suggests that job stability and job quality are vital in enhancing the crime suppression effects of employment. Unfortunately, with the erosion of the manufacturing economy and the increase in the service-dominated economy, offenders who are typically on the margins of society, are pushed towards the informal economy now more than before. The current study attends to the relationship between informal work and crime by analyzing data from the Pathways to Desistance study. Results from fixed effects linear probability models show that informal work is associated with a higher probability of engaging in expressive crimes, but not instrumental crimes. Neither informal nor formal work arrangements seem to work as crime suppressants, but informal arrangements appear more criminogenic.

摘要

研究表明，工作稳定性和工作质量对于增强就业的犯罪抑制效果至关重要。不幸的是，随着制造业经济的侵蚀和以服务业为主导的经济的增长，通常处于社会边缘的犯罪者现在比以前更多地被推向非正规经济。目前的研究通过分析来自“终止途径”研究的数据来关注非正规工作与犯罪之间的关系。固定效应线性概率模型的结果表明，非正式工作与从事表达性犯罪的概率较高有关，但与工具性犯罪无关。非正式和正式的工作安排似乎都不能起到抑制犯罪的作用，但非正式的安排似乎更容易犯罪。