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Much work on crime has focussed on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable) the effect of labor market conditions on crime. This study reviews studies of time series, cross area, and individual evidence pertaining to the effect of unnployment and other labor market variables on crime and conpares the "slrength" of the labor market-crime and the sanctions-crime relations.
Richard B. Freeman (Mon,) studied this question.
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