Making ends meet: Young people, work and the criminal economy
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
- Vol. 22 (3) , 136-150
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000486588902200302
Abstract
This paper attempts to locate changes in young people's involvement in crime, and the policing of young people, within the context of a changing political economy and the broken transitions experienced by a significant proportion of young men and young women. It begins by significant proportion of young men and young women. It begins by discussing how many young working class people have been excluded from the formal waged economy due to structural changes in the labour market. The paper then explores the relationship between the “cash crisis” affecting many unemployed school leavers, and their income and lifestyle options in the spheres of the informal waged economy, the informal unwaged economy, and the criminal economyKeywords
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