Author： Elliott Caroline Ellingworth Dan
Publisher： Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
ISSN： 0143-7720
Source： International Journal of Manpower, Vol.17, Iss.67, 1996-11, pp. : 81-88
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Abstract
Various authors have tested for the presence of a relationship between unemployment and crime, employing time-series or cross-sectional data. However, little use has been made of the British Crime Survey. Consequently, in the present paper, we test for the presence of a relationship between male unemployment and crime, using regional and area-level crime data from the 1992 British Crime Survey, with socio-economic and demographic data being taken from the 1991 census. Use of these data sets allows us to look at four differing measures of crime: we can study possible relationships between male unemployment and the incidence, and prevalence, of both property and personal crimes. Area-level data are also employed to test more ecological explanations of spatial crime patterns.
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