TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Co-offending as Social Exchange. Explaining Characteristics of Co-offending
JO  - British journal of criminology
A1  - Weerman, Frank Maarten
SP  - 398
EP  - 416
VL  - 43
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0007-0955
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/43.2.398
ID  - ref1
ER  -