@article{ref1,
title="Co-offending and the diversification of crime types",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2012",
author="Andresen, Martin A. and Felson, Marcus",
volume="56",
number="5",
pages="811-829",
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;<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X11407154",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X11407154"
}