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Impact of Co-Offending

NCJ Number
229832
Journal
British Journal of Criminology Volume: 50 Issue: 1 Dated: January 2010 Pages: 66-81
Author(s)
Martin A. Andresen; Marcus Felson
Date Published
January 2010
Length
16 pages
Annotation
This paper focuses on youth co-offending in comparison to older individuals.
Abstract
Co-offending 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. Table, figures, and references (Published Abstracts)

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