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The British Journal of Criminology 43:398-416 (2003)
© 2003 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

Co-offending as Social Exchange. Explaining Characteristics of Co-offending

Frank M. Weerman*

*NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement), Leiden, The Netherlands.

Studies in the past have already revealed some interesting characteristics of co-offending, but relatively little attention has been paid to explaining them. This paper is focused on the explanation of these characteristics. A comprehensive theory is proposed, based on the idea that co-offending may be viewed as an event in which material and immaterial goods are exchanged. The basic concepts of such a social exchange theory are formulated in this article, and a causal model based on this theory is deduced. The paper also shows how the proposed theory may explain the well-known characteristics of co-offending.


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