TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Solo and multi-offenders who commit stranger kidnapping: an assessment of factors that correlate with violent events
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Cunningham, Shannon N.
A1  - Vandiver, Donna M.
SP  - 3459
EP  - 3479
VL  - 33
IS  - 22
N2  - Research has demonstrated that co-offending dyads and groups often use more violence than individual offenders. Despite the attention given to co-offending by the research community, kidnapping remains understudied. Stranger kidnappings are more likely than non-stranger kidnappings to involve the use of a weapon. Public fear of stranger kidnapping warrants further examination of this specific crime, including differences between those committed by solo and multi-offender groups. The current study uses National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data to assess differences in use of violence among 4,912 stranger kidnappings by solo offenders and multi-offender groups using cross-tabulations, ordinal regression, and logistic regression. The results indicate that violent factors are significantly more common in multi-offender incidents, and that multi-offender groups have fewer arrests than solo offenders. The implications of these findings are discussed.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516635320
ID  - ref1
ER  -