This review paper considers the connection between employment and criminal behavior.
We first examine theories that suggest a link between work and crime at different life course …

Since their introduction to criminology, turning points have been of substantial theoretical
and empirical focus for scholars of desistance. In this review, we consider how criminologists …

Objectives. The idea that immigration increases crime rates has historically occupied an
important role in criminological theory and has been central to the public and political …

Ex-prisoners' recidivism risks are high. Several theories state that employment can reduce
these risks but emphasize that the protective role of employment is conditional on job …

The main focus of this 5-year (2005-2009) follow-up study of released offenders was to
explore the post-release employment and recidivism among different types of released …

This study explores how a group of women recently released from prison as parolees
attempt to sustain their exit from deviant careers by constructing replacement selves. To …

An inverse relationship between employment and crime is well established, although the
mechanisms that account for the correlation remain poorly understood. In the current study …

While an increase in research on criminal desistance has occurred in recent years, little
research has been applied to the gang field. Using qualitative interview data, this article …

Using longitudinal data on the criminal careers of a group of high-risk men and women (N=
540) who were institutionalized in a Dutch juvenile justice institution in the nineties, this …

While the majority of offenders eventually desist from crime, the internal psychological
mechanisms hypothesized to drive the process of desistance and offender change have not …