TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Investigating the stability of co‐offending and co‐offenders among a sample of youthful offenders
JO  - Criminology
A1  - McGloin, Jean Marie
A1  - Sullivan, Christopher J.
A1  - Piquero, Alex R.
A1  - Bacon, Sarah
SP  - 155
EP  - 188
VL  - 46
IS  - 1
N2  - Scholars have long argued that delinquency is a group phenomenon. Even so, minimal research exists on the nature, structure, and process of co-offending. This investigation focuses on a particular void, namely the stability of 1) co-offending and 2) co-offender selection over time, for which divergent theoretical expectations currently exist that bear on issues central to general and developmental/life-course theories of crime. By relying on individual-level, longitudinal data for a sample of juvenile offenders from Philadelphia, we find that distinct trajectories of co-offending exist over the course of the juvenile criminal career. This inquiry also develops an individualized measure of co-offender stability, which reveals that delinquents generally tend not to “reuse” co-offenders, although frequent offenders show a greater propensity to do so. The discussion considers the theoretical and policy implications of these findings as well as provides some avenues for future research.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1384
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2008.00105.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -