@article{ref1,
title="The Impact of Co-Offending",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="2010",
author="Andresen, M. A. and Felson, Marcus",
volume="50",
number="1",
pages="66-81",
abstract="Co-offending (committing crime in the company of others) has a major impact on the arithmetic of crime rates and the burdens on the justice system. This paper studies co-offending by single year of age using data that comprise 750,000 negative police contacts (those charged, chargeable and suspected in criminal offenses) in a largely metropolitan dataset from British Columbia, Canada, 2002-06. We find that shifts in co-offending rates within teenage years are extremely rapid and highly sensitive to sample age ranges, such that a single co-offending rate for all teenagers is misleading. Co-offending opens a range of policy options and issues concerning the presence of youth hangouts and offender convergence settings that can assist the search for suitable co-offenders.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="10.1093/bjc/azp043",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azp043"
}