Unemployment and Crime: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on Unemployment and Crime, October 27 and 28, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 713 pages |
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Page 573 - ... equipment, armed citizen volunteers in cars will supplement inadequate police patrols in neighborhoods closer to the central city, and extreme left-wing and right-wing groups will have tremendous armories of weapons which could be brought into play with or without any provocation.
Page 573 - Suburban neighborhoods, geographically far removed from the central city, will be protected mainly by economic homogeneity and by distance from population groups with the highest propensities to commit crimes. • Lacking a sharp change in federal and state policies, ownership of guns will be almost universal in the suburbs, homes will be fortified by an array of devices from window grills to electronic surveillance equipment...
Page 667 - The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.
Page 345 - the primary market offers jobs which possess several of the following traits : high wages, good working conditions, employment stability and job security, equity and due process in the administration of work rules, and chances for advancement.
Page 667 - Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association.
Page 156 - We have your prepared statement which, without objection, will be made a part of the record and you may proceed in any way that you deem fit.
Page 345 - I have termed elsewhere the primary market,1 offers jobs which possess several of the following traits: high wages, good working conditions, employment stability and job security, equity and due process (in the administration of work rules, and chances for advancement. The other, or secondary sector, has jobs which, relative to those in the primary sector, are decidedly less attractive. They tend to involve low wages, poor working conditions, considerable variability in employment, harsh and often...
Page 573 - In a few more years, lacking effective public action, this is how these cities will likely look: Central business districts in the heart of the city, surrounded by mixed areas of accelerating deterioration, will be partially protected by large numbers of people shopping or working in commercial buildings during daytime hours, plus a substantial police presence, and will be largely deserted except for police patrols during night-time hours. High-rise apartment buildings and residential compounds...
Page 549 - ... crime, employee theft) require jobs in order to be possible. For these types of crime, one would expect a decrease rather than an increase as unemployment rises. Second, some offenders mix employment and crime. These individuals either "moonlight" in criminal activities or use their legitimate job as a front (eg, fences, drug dealers). For this group like the first employment and crime go hand in hand. For individuals moonlighting in crime, unemployment may increase criminal activity as predicted...
Page 509 - Social scientists identify four ingredients of alienation: (1) powerlessness (regarding ownership of the enterprise, general management policies, employment conditions and the immediate work process), (2) meaninglessness (with respect to the character of the product worked on as well as the scope of the product or the production process), (3) isolation (the social aspect of work), and (4) self-estrangement ("depersonalized detachment," including boredom, which can lead to "absence of personal growth").