Traveling Alone or Together?: neighborhood Context on Individual and Group Juvenile and Adult Burglary Decisions

Neighborhood characteristics are important considerations when offenders make targeting decisions. Movement patterns among adults and juveniles vary widely, which impacts both the number of crime opportunities and the range of neighborhoods to which an offender is exposed. We test whether offending...

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1. VerfasserIn: Chamberlain, Alyssa W. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Boggess, Lyndsay N. ; Fisher, Taylor
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2023
In: Crime & delinquency
Jahr: 2023, Band: 69, Heft: 11, Seiten: 2075-2101
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Racial Disparities
drugs arrests
neighborhood race
non-serious crime
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Zusammenfassung:Neighborhood characteristics are important considerations when offenders make targeting decisions. Movement patterns among adults and juveniles vary widely, which impacts both the number of crime opportunities and the range of neighborhoods to which an offender is exposed. We test whether offending patterns among adult and juvenile burglars vary based on distances traveled, the types of neighborhoods targeted, and whether suspects acted alone or in a group. Using discrete choice modeling, we draw upon a unique sample of cleared burglaries in a representative city in the south over a 13-year period. Results show that adult burglars consistently travel further and are more sensitive to neighborhood conditions than their juvenile counterparts, but that group participation makes little difference in target decisions.
ISSN:1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/00111287211067177