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British Journal of Criminology 2007 47(6):861-884; doi:10.1093/bjc/azm029
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The British Journal of Criminology 47:861-884 (2007)
© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

GENDER, MOTIVATION AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF STREET ROBBERY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Fiona Brookman, Christopher Mullins, Trevor Bennett and Richard Wright*

* Please address correspondence to Richard Wright, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St Louis, St Louis, MO 63121, USA; surfer{at}umsl.edu. The research on which this article is based was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council for England and Wales (Award Number: RES-000-22–0398).


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In an influential study of gender and the accomplishment of street robbery in the United States, Miller (1998) demonstrated that whereas there were few gender differences in the motivations for such crimes, men and women typically committed them in strikingly different ways. Other recent work has similarly established both convergence within and divergence between male and female criminal enactment patterns. Most of that work, however, also was conducted in the United States, making it difficult to determine whether and to what extent these results are culturally bound. This article, based on open-ended interviews with incarcerated male and female offenders in the United Kingdom, explores the ways in which gender shapes the motivation and enactment of street robbery in a non-US context.


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