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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Co-offending"”.
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Child Sexual Abuse and Co-offending in the UK: An Empirical Examination of Characteristics, Crime Commission Processes, and Network Structures
The core purpose of this thesis is to advance understanding of child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrated in co-offending contexts in the UK. Subsumed within this overarching objective are three key research aims, pursued using a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and datasets, and …
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With a little help from my friends: Exploring the perceptions and utility of partners of drug crime.
Co-offending and drug crime scholarship have rarely crossed paths. Whenever co-offending and drug crime are investigated together, the work is almost always quantitative. Thus much remains unknown about why drug dealers cooperate criminally. To provide a modest contribution to what is otherwise a …
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“With a Little Help from My Friends”: The Influence of Co-offenders on the Journey to Crime
Scholars increasingly recognize the proliferation of co-offending incidents, estimating that one-quarter to one-half of all offending involves two or more individuals. The presence of co-offenders has been found to impact the duration, type, and intensity of offending yet the literature remains …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… been highlighted both in media and in the economics literature; and that are policy priorities. Chapter 1 is a joint work with Giovanni Mastrobuoni which focuses on prisoners and peer effects in prison. Studies that estimate criminal peer effects need to define the reference group. …
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Prevention Not Cure: Targeting Influenced, Influencers and Convergence Spots to Stop Organised Crime from Happening.
… information on this phenomenon are needed to overcome these issues. Moreover, the interventions currently available to prevent organised crime from materialising in the first place have shown little success in curbing this multibillion dollar industry. Social control apparatuses such as law …
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CROSSING BORDERS: MEXICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS INFLUENCE ON INTERSTATE GANG STRUCTURE
… membership been expanding, but the formation of cooperative ties with Mexican drug trafficking organizations (MDTOs) has been increasing as well. Collaborative relationships with MDTOs appear to be the driving force behind the continuing gang expansion and its subsequent effects. Using social …