Unemployment and Violence
Not having a job or having a job that doesn’t use all your skills or pay enough can make people more likely to join in organized or group violence.[,] This can happen when people feel frustrated, angry, or like they aren’t being respected. If they don’t have good ways to deal with these feelings, they might end up joining a gang or an extremist group.
[VE11] Cramer, C. (2010). Unemployment and Participation in Violence. World Development Report. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/9247/WDR2011_0022.pdf?sequence=1
[VE12] Cramer, C. (2015). Jobs, Unemployment and Violence. Governance and Social Development Resource Centre Professional Development Reading Pack no. 10. Birmingham, UK: University of Birmingham. https://gsdrc.org/professional-dev/jobs-unemployment-and-violence/