Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• KLECK, GARY
• CHIRICOS, TED

Titel

UNEMPLOYMENT AND PROPERTY CRIME: A TARGET-SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT OF OPPORTUNITY AND MOTIVATION AS MEDIATING FACTORS

Ist Teil von

• Criminology (Beverly Hills), 2002-08, Vol.40 (3), p.649-680

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Most recent unemployment‐crime (U‐C) research is informed by the possibility that unemployment could both increase motivation for crime and decrease criminal opportunities. The mediating links of motivation and opportunity, though often assumed, have almost never been measured. We directly test for the potential mediating effects of opportunity and motivation using county‐level data for target‐specific crime rates such as convenience store robberies, motorcycle thefts, etc. We link these with data on the supply and value of corresponding crime targets (e.g., number and annual sales of convenience stores). Opportunity levels were generally unrelated to property crime rates and do not appear to mediate the U‐C relationship.