Citation

Andresen MA, Felson M. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. 2012; 56(5): 811-829.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0306624X11407154

PMID

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Abstract

There is theoretical and empirical support for co-offending being important not only for understanding current offending but also subsequent offending. The fundamental question is-why? In this article, an aggregate analysis is performed that begins to answer this question. Disaggregating solo- and co-offending by single year of age (12-29 years) and crime type in a largely metropolitan data set from British Columbia, Canada, 2002 to 2006, it is shown that the distribution of co-offences is significantly more varied than the distribution of solo offences. This more varied distribution of co-offences favors property crimes during youth but fades as offenders age. KW: Juvenile justice; Juvenile delinquency;

Language: en