@article{ref1,
title="Co-offending as Social Exchange. Explaining Characteristics of Co-offending",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="2003",
author="Weerman, Frank Maarten",
volume="43",
number="2",
pages="398-416",
abstract="Studies in the past have already revealed some interesting characteristics of co-offending, but relatively little attention has been paid to explaining them. This paper is focused on the explanation of these characteristics. A comprehensive theory is proposed, based on the idea that co-offending may be viewed as an event in which material and immaterial goods are exchanged. The basic concepts of such a social exchange theory are formulated in this article, and a causal model based on this theory is deduced. The paper also shows how the proposed theory may explain the well-known characteristics of co-offending.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="10.1093/bjc/43.2.398",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/43.2.398"
}