This paper estimates the individual impact of a worker's job loss on his/her criminal activity.
Using a matched employer–employee longitudinal data set on unemployment, crime, and …

Evolutionary approaches have the potential to make significant contributions to our
understanding of criminal offending. In particular, an evolutionary perspective can help in …

We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass layoffs, on criminal arrests
using a matched employer-employee crime dataset from Medellín, Colombia. Job …

This paper uses the universe of convictions in France between 2000 and 2003 to document
the gender gap in sentencing. It reveals three main findings. First, during this period, and …

Background Risk of violence is closely associated with aggression propensity. However,
there is a lack of research to explain the mechanisms behind this association, especially …

This paper recognises that interest and concerns about the plight of women involved in
offending and the criminal justice system are not new but attention to this issue has …

This paper examines the nature of female offending patterns in relationship to societal
gender equality using cross-national analysis of 27 European countries for the year 2006 …

In this paper, we advocate identifying the colonizing logics of race in criminological analysis,
in recognition of their enduring postcolonial presence in societies like the United Kingdom …

Researchers have explored the effects of marijuana legalization on a range of outcomes,
including crime and public health. Relatively few, however, have explored the effects of …

Objectives Examine trends in aggressive behavior from 1991 to 2015, investigate whether
these trends apply equally to all individuals, and explore the extent to which differences in …