Co-offending and the persistence of violence: A dynamic analysis
dc.contributor.author | Meneghini, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Calderoni, F | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-25T11:15:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-01-19 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-01-25T10:03:29Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Objectives: Previous research underscores the influence of prior violent co-offending on subsequent violent behavior, linking it to a social contagion mechanism akin to the internalization of violence. However, these studies are limited by disregarding the entirety of a criminal career and overlooking diverse co-offending dynamics beyond co-offenders’ characteristics. This study examines the longitudinal impact of prior violent (solo and co-) offending on future individual-level violent behavior among Italian organized crime offenders. Methods: Leveraging criminal career data from 9819 Italian organized crime offenders, we model offending choices through a discrete-time Markov process. Subsequently, employing dynamic random-effects probit models, we quantify the influence of prior violent (solo and co-) offending on future violence, considering various confounders and unobserved individual-level effects. Results: Violence is a persistent and long-lasting behavior among organized crime offenders. Prior violent co-offending has a greater impact than prior violent solo offending on the probability of future violence. Prior violent co-offending increases the probability of future violent co-offending but does not impact the probability of future violent solo offending. Conclusions: The results show that co-offending promotes the transmission of violence but fail to support the internalization of violent behavior postulated by prior studies. We propose possible alternative mechanisms of violence transmission that operate through self-sustaining dynamics of violent co-offending within criminal groups. Although limited data on individual characteristics constrains interpretation, our results imply that violence transmission dynamics are independent from the individual characteristics of the co-offenders and more directly connected to group effects. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Union’s Horizon 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 19 January 2024 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-023-09581-0 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 699824 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/135125 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2024. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Co-offending | en_GB |
dc.subject | Violence | en_GB |
dc.subject | Collective behaviour | en_GB |
dc.subject | Dynamic models | en_GB |
dc.subject | Organized crime | en_GB |
dc.title | Co-offending and the persistence of violence: A dynamic analysis | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-25T11:15:25Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0748-4518 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Springer via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability: Due to privacy concerns, the research data supporting this publication are not publicly available. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1573-7799 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Quantitative Criminology | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Quantitative Criminology | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-12-20 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2024-01-19 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-01-25T11:11:41Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-01-25T11:15:26Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2024-01-19 |
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