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Antonello and Cellini (1998) conducted a study on “Economic Activity and Crime in the Long-run” and investigated the aggregated data from the period of 1951 to 1994 of Italy. They examined the economic determinants, factors and causes of the crime rates in Italy. They used the Granger causality test and co-integration test for the time series data from the period of 1951 to 1994. They concluded the results that unemployment better explained the theft patterns. While on the other hand Consumption was found to be explaining the pattern of homicides, burglaries and robberies in Italy.
2) Agnew (1992) conducted a study on “Foundation for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency” in which he discovered that joblessness generates frustration, anger and fury and which then may lead towards violent behavior.
3) Hirschi and Gottfredson (1983) in their research study “Age and the Explanation of Crime” have found that age pattern of crime is almost close to the universal and also found the results that Criminal activity rise with age then reaches at peak in the late teens and then gradually fall after teen age.
4) Grogger (1998) undertook a research study “Market Wages and Youth Crime” and in his research on market wages and youth crimes he have found that youths are more exposed and vulnerable to the hazards and threats of unemployment, leading youth towards the criminal activities.
5) Hans Gronqvist (2012) conducted a study “YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND CRIME: LESSONS FROM LONGITUDINAL POPULATION RECORDS”. In his research he used population wide longitudinal labor market records and conviction data to study the relation between youth unemployment and crime. The findings suggested enormous and precisely estimated effects of unemployme...

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Saridakis, G., Spengler, H. (2009). “Crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece: A panel data approach”. DIW Berlin. German . Institute for Economic Research.
28) John W. Lynch, Ph.D., M.P.H., George A. Kaplan, Ph.D., and Sarah J. Shema, M.S. (1997) conducted a study on the “Cumulative Impact of Sustained Economic Hardship on Physical, Cognitive, Psychological, and Social Functioning” and after examining they concluded that the Sustained and consistent economic and pecuniary suffering leads towards the poorer psychological, physical and cognitive functioning among the individuals.

29) Winefield & Tigg ermann (1990)conducted a research study on the “Employment Status and Psychological Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study” and discovered the results that Unemployment poses different types of psychological effects including the stress, anxiety and the depression.

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