The Compounding Effect: How Co-Offending Exacerbates the Harm Caused by Violent Offenders
Emily Piper,
Barak Ariel,
Vincent Harinam
et al.
Abstract:To what extent do violent offenders cause harm to victims when they act independently versus when they collaborate with others? Currently, it remains unclear whether co-offending exacerbates the degree of violence, partly due to measurement considerations, i.e. how to account for varying degrees of crime severity. Using police records from Dorset, UK, we compare violent crimes committed by lone individuals to those committed by co-offending networks using a crime harm index. While lone offenders commit the maj… Show more
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