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These issues are discussed in more detail in Richard McGahey, “Crime, Criminal Justice, and Economics: A Review Essay,”American Bar Foundation Research Journal, no. 4, (Fall 1984), pp. 869–887.
Richard McGahey, “Labor Market Segmentation, Human Capital, and the Economics of Crime.” Ph.D. dissertation, New School for Social Research, 1982.
W. Kip Viscusi, “Market Incentives for Criminal Behavior,” inThe Black Youth Joblessness Crisis edited by Richard Freeman and Harry Holzer, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
Richard McGahey, 1982,op. cit. and Michelle Sviridoff with Jerome E. McElroy, “Employment and Crime: A Summary Report,” Vera Institute of Justice, New York, 1984 (mimeo).
Vicusi,op. cit.“
Georg Rusche and Otto Kirschiemer,Punishment and Social Structure, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939).
Heilbroner provides a very useful introduction to and discussion of some of the theoretical complexities in current Marxian thought. See Robert L. Heilbroner,Marxism: For and Against, (New York: Norton & Co., 1980).
Recent work in this vein can be found in Albert J. Reiss, Jr. and Michael Tonry (eds.),Communities and Crime, volume 8 in the seriesCrime and Justice: A Review of Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
This argument is developed in Richard McGahey, “Economic Conditions, Neighborhood Organization, and Urban Crime,” in Albert J. Reiss, Jr. and Michael Tonry, (eds.),op. cit.
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McGahey, R. Crime and employment research: A continuing deadlock?. Rev Black Polit Econ 16, 223–230 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900932
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