Victimization-Precipitated Residential Mobility Among Women Offenders

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (13) ◽  
pp. 1718-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa M. Yetter
Keyword(s):  
Women Offenders ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Relationship Dissolution ◽  
Neighborhood Safety ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
Calendar Data ◽  
Event Calendar ◽  
Life Event Calendar

Victims of crime are likely to move residence following their victimization. However, the reasons for and the outcomes of victimization-precipitated moves remain unclear. The current study uses life event calendar data on jailed women to test two potential mechanisms: relationship dissolution and perceptions of neighborhood safety. In addition, this study seeks to understand how the safety of women’s residential contexts is affected by their past victimizations and residential mobility. Results show that intimate partner victimization is associated with increased odds of moving, and this relationship is partially mediated by relationship dissolution. Furthermore, moving and nonpartner victimization interact in their effects on neighborhood safety, such that moves following higher levels of victimization lead women into more dangerous neighborhoods.

scholarly journals Assessing the Accuracy of Life Event Calendar Data in an Offender Sample

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-566
Author(s):  
Nikki van Gerwen ◽  
Arjan Blokland ◽  
Arieke J. Rijken
Keyword(s):  
Life Event ◽  
Calendar Data ◽  
Event Calendar ◽  
Life Event Calendar

Examining the Effect of Residential Mobility on Crime Through the Mechanism of Perceived Informal Social Costs

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110104
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Kijowski ◽  
Theodore Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Point Estimates ◽  
Calendar Data ◽  
Pathways To Desistance ◽  
Event Calendar ◽  
Life Event Calendar ◽  
Insight Into

Although research suggests a positive association between adolescent residential mobility and offending, the mechanism by which this process unfolds is less understood. One commonly cited explanation is that moving severs ties to pro-social others, reducing perceptions of informal social costs that then leads to offending. We test this mechanism with data from the Pathways to Desistance Study, which is a longitudinal study of serious offending youth. We integrate monthly-level residential mobility information from the access-restricted Life Event Calendar data with the publicly available data comprised of informal social costs and offending. We estimate fixed effects models with bootstrapping techniques to produce point estimates of the indirect effect. Our results provide insight into a prominent mechanism by which mobility affects offending.

scholarly journals Reliability and Validity of Prisoner Self-Reports Gathered Using the Life Event Calendar Method

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Sutton ◽  
Paul E. Bellair ◽  
Brian R. Kowalski ◽  
Ryan Light ◽  
Donald T. Hutcherson
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Event Calendar ◽  
Life Event Calendar

scholarly journals Erratum to: Reliability and Validity of Prisoner Self-Reports Gathered Using the Life Event Calendar Method

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-173
Author(s):  
James E. Sutton ◽  
Paul E. Bellair ◽  
Brian R. Kowalski ◽  
Ryan Light ◽  
Donald T. Hutcherson
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Event Calendar ◽  
Life Event Calendar

Women as Perpetrators and Victims of Crime

1991 ◽  
Vol 158 (S10) ◽  
pp. 50-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances M. Heidensohn
Keyword(s):  
Women Offenders ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Female Crime ◽  
Criminal Convictions ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
Perpetrators And Victims

A strong emphasis on individual psychopathology has informed much discussion on female crime, although more recent research has stressed its social setting and influences. Women commit all types of crime, although to a much lesser extent than men, particularly with regard to violent crime. Social and economic marginalisation is a significant factor in female crime. Criminal convictions seem to be more stigmatising for women. In court, women are treated as doubly deviant and their actions are explained in psychopathological terms. Because of the small numbers of women offenders, non-custodial and custodial provisions for them are inadequate. Although men are more likely to be victims of, for example, street crime, women express more fear of crime. One reason for this may be the prevalence of domestic crime committed by men against women (and children) that is underestimated in some surveys.

Life in the Fast Lane: Drugs, Hedonistic Lifestyles, and Economic Crime

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 1292-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Felson ◽  
D. Wayne Osgood ◽  
Patrick R. Cundiff ◽  
Craig Wiernik
Keyword(s):  
Property Crime ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Drug Dealing ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Male Offenders ◽  
Hard Drugs ◽  
Calendar Data ◽  
Economic Crimes ◽  
Event Calendar ◽  
Unstructured Socializing

We examine whether economic crimes are committed to fund drug addiction and/or to fund a hedonistic lifestyle. To address motivation, we estimate reciprocal relationships between economic crime and drug use and between economic crime and hedonistic activity generally. Analyses are based on event calendar data collected from 715 male offenders. Both simultaneous (within-month) relationships and effects involving a 1-month lag are examined. Offenders were more likely to engage in property crime and drug dealing during months in which they used hard drugs, marijuana, and alcohol, and when they engaged in more frequent unstructured socializing. The results from lagged models suggested that hedonistic activities lead to economic crime and economic crime creates opportunities for more frequent hedonistic activity.

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