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California Criminal Justice Profile 1999: San Francisco County, California Department Of Justice
California Criminal Justice Profile 1999: San Francisco County, California Department Of Justice
California Agencies
The annual Criminal Justice Profile series supplements and expands on the data provided in the Law Enforcement Information Center's (LEIC) "Crime and Delinquency in California." There is a separate Criminal Justice Profile for each county and the state. Most of the data included in these publications are reported to LEIC by state and local agencies. Other sources are noted.
Hate Crime In California, 1999, California Department Of Justice
Hate Crime In California, 1999, California Department Of Justice
California Agencies
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Crime And Work, Jeffrey Fagan, Richard B. Freeman
Crime And Work, Jeffrey Fagan, Richard B. Freeman
Faculty Scholarship
Crime and legal work are not mutually exclusive choices but represent a continuum of legal and illegal income-generating activities. The links between crime and legal work involve trade-offs among crime returns, punishment costs, legal work opportunity costs, and tastes and preferences regarding both types of work. Rising crime rates in the 1980s in the face of rising incarceration rates suggest that the threat of punishment is not the dominant cost of crime. Crime rates are inversely related to expected legal wages, particularly among young males with limited job skills or prospects. Recent ethnographic research shows that involvement in illegal work …