Involvement in Crime, Individual Resources and Structural Constraints: Processes of Cumulative (Dis)Advantage in a Stockholm Birth Cohort | Zendy

Anders Nilsson | Zendy; Olof Bäckman | Zendy; Felipe Estrada | Zendy

Open Access

Involvement in Crime, Individual Resources and Structural Constraints: Processes of Cumulative (Dis)Advantage in a Stockholm Birth Cohort

Author(s) -

Anders Nilsson,

Olof Bäckman,

Felipe Estrada

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the british journal of criminology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1464-3529

pISSN - 0007-0955

DOI - 10.1093/bjc/azs068

Subject(s) - life course approach , welfare , unemployment , cohort , disadvantage , recession , demographic economics , economics , national child development study , element (criminal law) , psychology , sociology , demography , political science , social psychology , economic growth , macroeconomics , socioeconomic status , medicine , market economy , law , population

In this article, we study how a central welfare outcome, labour market attachment, develops for different groups defined on the basis of their criminal involvement over the life course. Can we see the pattern of increasing inter-group disparities in labour market attachment that would be predicted by cumulative disadvantage theories? If so, is this a result of the criminal history of individuals or should criminal involvement be seen as one element in a negative life trajectory in a more general sense? And what role do circumstances at the structural level play in such a process? The Swedish economic recession of the 1990s and an examination of how a Stockholm cohort entered, lived through and then exited the unemployment crisis provide an opportunity to study how macro events affect different groups of individuals in a specific socio-historical situation. Our results show that both individual resources and historical events at the structural level are important when it comes to describing individual biographies and events in the life course.

AuthorCount:3;

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research