@article{ref1,
title="The Gender of Criminal Opportunity: The Impact of Male Co-Offenders on Women's Crime",
journal="Feminist criminology",
year="2011",
author="Becker, Sarah and McCorkel, Jill A.",
volume="6",
number="2",
pages="79-110",
abstract="Women commit less crime than men and their crimes are typically less serious, violent, and profitable. Most investigations of this &quot;gender gap&quot; in offending consider differences in social control or socialization. This helps explain overall crime participation disparities, but cannot account for the sex-segregated character of offending. Building on ethnographic research and feminist labor market analyses, our study explores how gender affects access to criminal opportunities. Using NIBRS data, we examine the effect a male co-offender has on women's offending. We find that the presence of a male co-offender broadens women's criminal involvement in distinctive ways.<p />",
language="",
issn="1557-0851",
doi="10.1177/1557085110396501",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557085110396501"
}