TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Co-offending and the diversification of crime types
JO  - International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
A1  - Andresen, Martin A.
A1  - Felson, Marcus
SP  - 811
EP  - 829
VL  - 56
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-624X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X11407154
ID  - ref1
ER  -