How Career-Ladder Jobs Increase Employment Prospects: Redeeming Lives from the Consequences of Youth Delinquency - Hardcover

Wang, Shun-yung Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773443304 ISBN 13: 9780773443303

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Synopsis

This is a brilliant contribution to the existing literature on adolescent employment and crime. It connects theory and research with public policy in a balanced manner and introduces the concept of career-ladder jobs as a guide to reduce crime and delinquency by looking at public policy and adolescent employment in a new way. The impact of labor market participation on American youth has raised scholarly debates for several decades, but the relationship between employment and delinquency and criminal behaviours is not fully understood in the context of youths' life stage. More recent studies that addressed the issue of youth employment and crime emphasize one variable, work intensity, and left plenty of unknown pieces in this puzzle. This study introduces the concept of "career-ladder jobs" that deter job holders from committing delinquent and criminal behaviours. A career-ladder position is defined as a job with significant upward mobility on a status ladder, and, to adolescents, thes

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"The brilliance of this work centers on bringing the concept of a "career-ladder job" into the literature on adolescent work and delinquent involvement...it is more than just an academic publication filled with theory and statistics...it is a book that matters." (Prof. Kevin Beaver, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL) "...theoretically rich but also exceptionally well-written...an indispensable reference for those who want to understand the connections between youth employment and criminal involvement." (Prof. Ivan Y. Sun, University of Delaware)"

About this edition

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• ISBN 10: 0773443304
• ISBN 13: 9780773443303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 140