r day with criminal activities to support themselves. Study weaknesses were that it relied on self-report measures during an interview and it did not provide empirical evidence to support the link between unemployment and crime.
Baron, S. W., & Hartnagel, T. F. (1997). Attributions, affect, and crime: Street youths' reactions to unemployment. Criminology, 35(3), 409-434. The authors studied street youths' reactions to labor market experiences found links to anger and other attributions which increase crime rates. A study strength included the large sample of 200 male street youths. Findings showed that family and school had little effect on criminal behavior, but unemployment leading to homelessness, drug use, and criminal peers did effect criminal behavior. A study weakness was that it relied on self-report measures.
Bushway, S. D. (1998). The impact of an arrest on the job stability of young white American men. The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 35(4), 454-479. Bushway investigated the impact of an arrest on
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