This paper analyses the impact of the introduction of an Earning or Learning reform on youth crime in Queensland, Australia. The 2006 reform increased learning and reduced earning as school participation rose p
Crime Prevention Dental ethics Gambling Addiction Industrial Pollution Prevention The importance of safeguarding young people from harmful gambling is widely acknowledged, yet there is little consensus on how to achieve this goal (Riley et al. 2021), despite relatively high rates of underage gambli...
The Queensland Government, for example, has recently announced ‘even tougher’ responses to youth offending (Queensland Government, Citation2023). Yet ‘a tough on crime’ response to joyriding and youth justice more broadly is likely to fail given high recidivism data stating more than half of ...
doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.003Tony BeattonMichael P. KiddStephen MachinDipanwita SarkarElsevierBeatton, T., Kidd, M.P, Machin, S., and Sarkar, D. (2018) Larrikin Youth: Crime and Queens- land´s Earning or Learning Reform, Labour Economics, 52, 149-159....