‘Drive it like you Stole it’

Vehicle Crime, CPTED, and Offending under the Influence: A Qualitative Investigation of Offender Perceptions

“…Those who disclosed a greater number of convictions for vehicle offences seemed more at ease identifying features that would facilitate offending (see Ekblom 2011; Garwood 2011) than those who had only one or a couple of convictions. This could support the findings of Cherbonneau and Copes (2006) and Copes and Cherbonneau (2006) which reveal that with experience committing vehicle offences, offender perceptions of opportunity improve. Some whose offending was unrelated to drugs or alcohol explained how their offending choices would be different from this group (usually indicating that they would be savvier).…”

“…A form of participant observation (see Cromwell et al 1991;Nee and Taylor 2000;Armitage et al 2018) with a similar population should be a next step to validate and to gain further details about how vehicle crime opportunity is perceived. This follow-up sample has been described as an 'intensive dozen' (Humphreys 1970, p. 36; see Cherbonneau and Copes 2006). Offenders might be described as an unreliable source of data because of a reluctance to share successful methods of offending (Leclerc 2017).…”

“…Mechanisms (Pawson and Tilley 1997) associated with vehicle offences include: drug use (Holloway et al 2004), unemployment (Light et al 1993), impulsivity (Cherbonneau and Copes 2006), peer pressure (Light et al 1993), and membership in a criminal network (Brown 2016;Kleemans and Soudijn 2017). These factors could shape where vehicle offences occur and the regularity of them, for instance, if there are high concentrations of unemployed individuals who are willing to commit vehicle offences despite the risks that are involved, such as being caught by the police or 'jumped on' by an onlooker (see Light et al 1993, p. 29).…”

Criminal Self-Efficacy and Perceptions of Risk and Reward among Women Methamphetamine Manufacturers

“…Overcoming such challenges can function as an enactive mastery experience that may heighten perceived criminal competency. Indeed, people can become further emboldened in offending after adapting their crime commission strategies in response to sanction risks (Cherbonneau & Copes, 2006). This is consistent with research finding that some people may fail to raise or even lower their risk perceptions after risk experiences (Piquero & Pogarsky, 2002;Schulz, 2014), that some find ways to account for their failures to maintain this sense of self (Copes & Vieraitis, 2012), and that some may draw on their experiences to develop strategies to avoid risk in the future (Jacobs, 1993).…”

“…Whereas it is common to rely solely on serendipitous findings in qualitative research, we wanted to provide additional support for our findings by adding the boosted sample. Boosted samples have been used by Humpheys (1970), Jacobs (1999, and Cherbonneau and Copes (2006).…”