@article{ref1,
title="How universal is the youth crime drop? Disentangling recent trends in youth offending through a socio-economic lens",
journal="Victims and offenders",
year="2021",
author="McCarthy, Molly",
volume="16",
number="6",
pages="796-818",
abstract="Recent research has consistently found declines in youth offending, and it has been suggested that youth offending may have become more concentrated in lower socio-economic communities. However, there has been limited empirical examination of this proposition. This study aimed to examine changes in the relative concentration of youth offending in low and high socio-economic communities in an Australian jurisdiction, from 2008 to 2018, and to explore socio-economic drivers of different types of youth offending over this period. Changes in offending concentration were measured using ratios of youth offending rates in low and high socio-economic communities over time and Poisson panel regression was used to explore socio-economic drivers of youth offending rates. <br><br>FINDINGS indicated disparate patterns across youth offending types, with significant decreases in one-off and low to moderate offending, and significant increases in chronic offending over the same period. Overall, youth offending was not found to have become increasingly concentrated in lower socio-economic communities, primarily due to larger relative increases in chronic offending in higher socio-economic communities. Despite a slight decrease in concentration, lower socio-economic communities continue to experience markedly higher youth offending rates. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate a need to better understand drivers of recent increases in chronic youth offending.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1556-4886",
doi="10.1080/15564886.2020.1855281",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2020.1855281"
}