RT Article
T1 Co-offending in context: The role of economic hardship
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 63
IS 1
SP 201
OP 220
A1 Rowan, Zachary R.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/183959215X
AB Scholars have argued that emergence of co-offending depends on the availability, proximity, and convergence of suitable co-offenders. The current study argues that changes in economic conditions may uniquely alter degree to which offenders are motivated to take on criminal accomplices and make engaging in group behaviour a more viable criminal opportunity. This study examines the between and within-MSA effects of economic hardship between 1990-2004 on the rate of co-offences committed using MSA-level data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Findings indicate that there are similarities in the relationship between economic hardship and crime generally but portray a much more nuanced relationship when viewed through the lens of group behaviour. The discussion evaluates the results from a series of hybrid decomposition model and considers the utility of situating co-offending within broader socio-structural contexts.
DO 10.1093/bjc/azac006