Criminal Behaviour from School to the Workplace
This volume focuses on the complex relationship between offending and the transition from school to the workplace: how employment and education are related to breaking the law and getting in contact with the criminal justice system. The contributors report results from several large-scale and sophisticated studies conducted in the Netherlands that gathered rich data on employment, education and criminal behaviour. Each of the studies focuses on a particular period during the life course and particular risk categories. Taken together, they contribute to our understanding of how getting out of school, getting into a job and doing illegal things are intertwined over the life course, and how these relations differ with age and gender.
The background of this volume is our interest in the often-studied relationship between offending and employment, or more generally, between offending and the transition from school to work, including dropping out, part-time work and joblessness. The available literature casts little doubt that employment and education are indeed related to less crime and offending. However, this relation is much more complex than it appears at first sight.
The volume is primarily aimed at researchers and students in the fields of criminology, sociology and economics. However, it may also be of use for non-academic professionals, in particular policy makers and practitioners in the field of criminal justice, probation/rehabilitation and youth/schools.
Frank Weerman is senior researcher at the NSCR. His research interests are juvenile delinquency and criminological theory, with a focus on the role of peers in delinquent behaviour. He coordinated the NSCR School Project, a longitudinal study among secondary school students, and was also involved in the longitudinal Study of Peers, Activities and Neighbourhoods (SPAN).
Catrien Bijleveld is senior researcher at the NSCR and professor of Research Methods in Criminology at the VU University Amsterdam. She has been appointed as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Her research activities focus on criminal careers, effects of (experimental) interventions, juvenile sex offenders, historical trends in punishment and offending and intergenerational continuity in offending.
Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour
1. Criminal Behaviour from School to the Workplace
Untangling the complex relations between employment, education and crime
Edited by Frank Weerman and Catrien Bijleveld
Criminal Behaviour from School to the Workplace
Untangling the complex relations between employment, education and crime
Edited by
Frank Weerman and
Catrien Bijleveld
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Weerman, Frank M., 1968
Criminal behaviour from school to the workplace: untangling the complex relations between employment, education and crime / Frank Weerman and Catrien C. J. H. Bijleveld.
pages cm
1. Education and crimeNetherlands. 2. Crime prevention-Netherlands.
3. UnemploymentSocial aspectsNetherlands. 4. Juvenile
delinquencyNetherlands. I. Bijleveld, Catrien C. J. H.
II. Title.
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Contents
FRANK WEERMAN, VICTOR VAN DER GEEST, JANNA VERBRUGGEN AND ARJAN BLOKLAND
BRITTA RUSCHOFF, TINA KRETSCHMER, JAN KORNELIS DIJK TRA AND REN VEENSTRA
TANJA TRAAG, OLIVIER MARIE AND ROLF VAN DER VELDEN
FRANK WEERMAN
ARJAN BLOKLAND
HANNEKE PALMEN, FEMKE HILVERDA, ARJAN BLOKLAND AND WIM MEEUS
JANNA VERBRUGGEN, VICTOR VAN DER GEEST AND ARJAN BLOKLAND
GEERT MESTERS, CATRIEN BIJLEVELD AND DOREEN HUSCHEK
FRANK WEERMAN AND CATRIEN BIJLEVELD
ROLF VAN DER VELDEN, CHARLOTTE BCHNER AND TANJA TRAAG
JANNA VERBRUGGEN
Frank Weerman is a senior researcher at the NSCR. He received his master's degree in sociology in 1992, with a specialization in criminology. In 1998, he received his PhD at the University of Groningen. In his dissertation research, he conducted an empirical study to test and expand Hirschi's social control theory on juvenile delinquency. From 1998 until 2000, he was affiliated as a post-doc researcher at the University of Twente, where he wrote a book about co-offending, criminal cooperation and group formation. He has been affiliated with the NSCR since August 2000.
Frank's research interests are juvenile delinquency and criminological theory, with a focus on the role of peers in delinquent behaviour. Between 2002 and 2008, he coordinated the NSCR School Project, a longitudinal study among secondary school students that included data collection on changes in delinquency and social networks among the students. Under the umbrella of the international research network Eurogang, he published on troublesome youth groups and gangs and co-edited the second Eurogang volume. Since 2008, he is involved as senior researcher in the longitudinal Study of Peers, Activities and Neighbourhoods (SPAN).
Catrien Bijleveld is a senior researcher at the NSCR. She graduated in 1986 in research methods in psychology. In 1989 she obtained her PhD degree in the analysis of categorical time series from Leiden University. After working as a statistical consultant at TNO she became assistant professor at Leiden University. In 1997 she became programme coordinator at the WODC Research and Documentation Center of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice. In 2002 she graduated in criminal law. Since 2001 she is senior researcher at the NSCR, as well as Professor of Research Methods in Criminology at the VU University Amsterdam, and in 2011 she was appointed as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW).
Catrien's research activities focus on criminal careers, effects of (experimental) interventions, juvenile sex offenders, historical trends in punishment and offending, international criminal law and intergenerational continuity in offending. She coordinates the TRANS-5 project, in which starting from a group of reform-school men born in 1900 offending data have been gathered for them and their offspring, over five consecutive generations. She is also one of the coordinators of the 17Up project in which juveniles released around 1995 from a juvenile justice institution are followed well into adulthood. As one of the founders of the European Criminology Research Group on Atrocity Crimes, she studies (methods for the study of) crime and victimization in the context of large-scale conflict.
