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This 5-page paper analyzes an article discussing the link between unemployment and crime. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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to define peoples behaviors in response. One of the favorite topic along that point involves a link between unemployment and property crime. In their article entitled "Unemployment and property crime:
A target-specific assessment of opportunity and motivation as mediating factors," authors Gary Kleck and Ted Chiricos hypothesize that unemployment can motivate be a motivator toward property crime, even while criminal
opportunities decrease. In short, the authors note, there isnt a whole lot out there to support the idea that unemployment provides both motive and opportunity to commit a crime. In
their postulation, Kleck and Chiricos attempt to focus on the criminal opportunity theory, suggested by Cantor and Land in 1985, and the criminal motivational theory, introduced by Becker in 1968.
The authors point out that, from a theoretical basis, unemployment can create a demand (or motivation) for crime, as well as supply
(the opportunity) for such functions. The authors try to prove that, while the motivation might be there, the opportunity may not be. They
do this by studying a sample from the state of Florida; unpublished statistics from 1982 for target-specific crimes (such as automobile, motorcycle, truck and bus thefts; convenience store, drug store,
gas station, supermarket and bank robberies; shoplifting; residential burglaries and theft of motor vehicle parts). For each target-specific crime, the authors measured opportunity by determining supply and value of the
crime targets - with poverty rates being used as the "proxy" for criminal motivation. The county-level state was selected because it is "the smallest and most homogenous unit of analysis
for which some of the desired data are available" (Kleck and Chiricos, 2002; p. 657). The authors operationalized their variables by placing dependent
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