Life in the fast lane: drugs, hedonistic lifestyles, and economic crime

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 cal...

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Authors: Felson, Richard B. (Author) ; Osgood, D. Wayne (Author) ; Cundiff, Patrick R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2019, Volume: 65, Issue: 9, Pages: 1292-1318
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Drug dealing
Property crime
Routine activities
Unstructured socializing
Alcohol
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