Co-Offending and Patterns of Juvenile Crime - justice studies

DEC. 05
Co-Offending and Patterns of
Juvenile Crime
This report is based on
findings presented by the
authors in “Patterns of
Juvenile Delinquency and
Co-Offending,” in Crime
and Social Organization,
vol. 10 of Advances in
Criminological Theory, E.
Waring and D. Weisburd
(eds.), New Brunswick,
NJ: Transaction Publishers,
2002: 15–30; and “A
Longitudinal Examination
of the Relation between
Co-Offending With Violent
Accomplices and Violent
Crime,” Aggressive
Behavior 28 (2) (2002):
97–108. These articles are
available from
the National Criminal
Justice Reference Service
at www.ncjrs.org.
Findings and conclusions of the research reported here are those of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of
the U.S. Department of Justice or the National Institutes of Health.
This research was supported by the National Institute of Justice under
grant number 92–IJ–CX–K008, “Delinquent Networks in Philadelphia:
Co-Offending and Gangs.” The study’s final report, “Longitudinal
Examination of the Relation Between Co-Offending with Violent
Accomplices and Violent Crime,” by Kevin P. Conway and Joan McCord
(2001), is available at www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/192289.pdf.
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