RT Article
T1 A Critical Inquiry Into the Field of Multinational Research on Women's Offending
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 26
IS 1
SP 83
OP 103
A1 Applin, Samantha
A2 Simpson, John Michael
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1691375144
AB This paper provides a comprehensive and critical look at the current state of multinational research on women's offending and scrutinizes how this knowledge has been derived. The importance of global research for theoretical advancement is discussed. Questions about the validity of official data estimates as proxies for women's offending in cross-national research focus on the extent to which research findings are reflecting behavioural differences among the populations being studied or other exogenous factors, such as policing, policy and data collection. This paper carries on a tradition of inquiry into the data by presenting visual heuristics to facilitate easy interpretation of definitional differences in specified crime types across time and between country and by determining societal factors that correlate with the "dark figure of crime" when contrasting arrests and reported victimization across nations. The findings suggest cautious optimism for proceeding with rigorously compiled multinational official data sources to advance this important field of work.
K1 Multinational women’s offending
K1 Data sources
DO 10.1007/s10610-018-9402-5