Crime and Social Level

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This paper examines how various social factors impact crime committing in youth. It explains that there is a stereotype that poor and lower-class youth are the ones that commit crime. It points out the fact that many studies conclude that social class has no direct link to crime, but it does, on the other hand, have an indirect link.

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"Employment is also related to criminal behavior. The higher the likelihood that a job seeker from the relevant group has a criminal record, the more likely of unemployment. Changes in the family have affected two-parent families as well. Higher rates of participation in the labor force by mothers in two-parent families have helped to maintain family incomes, but they have also created stress for families and difficulties in caring for and supervising children and adolescents. Although the strong correlation between single-parent families and low income, it is difficult to distinguish their effects. Both factors seem to influence criminal behavior among adolescents (National Research Council 1995). The more minorities are jailed and released back on the streets, the more reluctant are employers to hire them. Minorities, as a result, have lower chances of employment, good wages and advancement. Therefore, minoroties have greater incentives to commit crime, which eventually leads to more of them being incarcerated or ex-convicts."

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