Gender and Arrests for Larceny, Fraud, Forgery, and Embezzlement: Conventional or Occupational Property Crime Offenders?

An Epidemiological Study of Burglary Offenders: Trends and Predictors of Self-Reported Arrests for Burglary in the United States, 2002-2013

“…Burglary is associated with a range of negative consequences for burglary victims including loss of property and damage to one's home, emotional trauma, stressful hypervigiliance due to the violation of privacy, increased anxiety, depression, and fear of crime, and others. Like all criminal offenses, there is substantial heterogeneity among burglary offenders in terms of their broader criminal career (Bouhana, Johnson, & Porter, 2014; Hargreaves & Francis, 2014;Shover, 1996), motivation for perpetrating burglary (Maguire, 1988; Wright, Logie, & Decker, 1995), geographic and temporal issues relating to burglary (Johnson, 2008; Johnson & Bowers, 2004; Kocsis & Irwin, 1998), and the association of burglary to other forms of crime (Fox & Farrington, 2012;Shover, 1996;Steffensmeier, Harris, & Painter-Davis, 2015). Thus, burglary can denote a one-off adolescent prank by a juvenile offender, an opportunistic offense by an offender enmeshed in an antisocial lifestyle, or a carefully planned instrumental crime 1 Given the extensive monetary and emotional costs imposed by burglary, a large segment of the burglary literature focuses on home security, burglary prevention techniques, and forensic issues relating to arrests for burglary (e.g., Alexandre, 1996;Allatt, 1984;Burrows & Tarling, 2004; Gelders, Peeraer, & Goossens, 2007; Kellermann et al, 1993;Tilley et al, 2015;Tseloni, Thompson, Grove, Tilley, & Farrell, 2014).…”

Rural and Urban Differences in Gender‐Sentencing Patterns of Pennsylvania

“…Fourth, a prominent weakness of previous research on the gender‐sentencing relationship in rural compared to urban localities is the inadequate control for the influence of offense seriousness and criminal history (see, e.g., Feld ), which have been consistently found to account for the largest proportion of sentencing variation (Steffensmeier, Ulmer, and Kramer ). Previous research consistently shows that females and males commit different types of crime, have different criminal histories, and play different roles in crime (see reviews in Schwartz and Steffensmeier ; Steffensmeier, Harris, and Painter‐Davis ). To capture real gender disparities in sentencing, research has to include adequate control of legal characteristics (e.g., prior criminal record, offense seriousness) that may account for gender differences in sentencing outcomes.…”

The effect of health insurance on crime: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion

“…For example, larceny crimes are usually relatively minor with less severe punishments (Rosenmerkel et al, 2009;Steffensmeier et al, 2015), implying effects on larceny should be weaker than for more serious crimes involving violence. 7 The model, therefore, predicts that criminal behavior, and thereby actual crime rates, will fall in response to an expansion of Medicaid.…”

“…Furthermore, since the model is predicated on the threat of going to jail, another prediction is that we should not expect to observe large effects for crimes where jail is unlikely. For example, larceny crimes are usually relatively minor with less severe punishments (Rosenmerkel et al, 2009;Steffensmeier et al, 2015), implying effects on larceny should be weaker than for more serious crimes involving violence.…”