Criminal Behaviour from School to the Workplace

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 out of school getting into a job and doing illegal things are intertwined over the life-course and how these relations differ with age and gender. The background of this volume is our interest in the often-studied relation between offending and employment or more generally between offending and the transition from school to work including dropping out part-time work and joblessness. The available literature casts little doubt that employment and education are indeed related to less crime and offending. However this relation is much more complex than it appears at first hand. The volume is primarily aimed at researchers and students in the fields of criminology sociology and economics. However it may also be of use for non-academic professionals in particular policy makers and practitioners in the field of criminal justice probation/rehabilitation and youth/schools. . Language: English