RT Article
T1 Offender insight into Australian stolen goods markets from 2002–2017: the DUMA survey as a 16-year window into property crime offenders’ target selections and disposal
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 30
IS 3
SP 271
OP 287
A1 Clare, Joseph
A2 Quinn, Liam
A2 Brown, Rick
A2 Morgan, Anthony 1980-
A2 Sullivan, Tom
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1885427956
AB Since 2002, seven iterations of the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) programme survey have asked arrested offenders about their stealing behaviours, including questions relating to stolen goods target selection and disposal. Throughout this same time period, stealing and domestic burglary rates in Australia have steadily declined. This paper examines the DUMA data with these high-level acquisitive crime trends in mind. Survey findings point to offenders having shifted away from stealing increasingly devalued electronic consumer goods for resale purposes, and toward stealing increasingly expensive food and clothing for personal consumption. This is consistent with what would be expected according to Consumer Price Index data, the opportunity-based CRAVED framework, and offender domain expertise. Applied and theoretical implications are discussed.
K1 stolen goods markets
K1 Situational Crime Prevention
K1 property crime drop
K1 crime opportunity
K1 DUMA
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2022.2080208