RT Article
T1 Life in the fast lane: drugs, hedonistic lifestyles, and economic crime
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 65
IS 9
SP 1292
OP 1318
A1 Felson, Richard B.
A1 Osgood, D. Wayne
A1 Cundiff, Patrick R.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1668847299
AB We examine whether economic crimes are committed to fund drug addiction and/or to fund a hedonistic lifestyle. To address motivation, we estimate reciprocal relationships between economic crime and drug use and between economic crime and hedonistic activity generally. Analyses are based on event calendar data collected from 715 male offenders. Both simultaneous (within-month) relationships and effects involving a 1-month lag are examined. Offenders were more likely to engage in property crime and drug dealing during months in which they used hard drugs, marijuana, and alcohol, and when they engaged in more frequent unstructured socializing. The results from lagged models suggested that hedonistic activities lead to economic crime and economic crime creates opportunities for more frequent hedonistic activity.
K1 Drug dealing
K1 Property crime
K1 Routine activities
K1 Unstructured socializing
K1 Alcohol
K1 Drogenhandel
DO 10.1177/0011128718800282