Projects

Serial offending and co-offending are two of the most prevalent offending behaviors in society. Evidence increasingly suggests that serial offending and co-offending are interdependent. However, extant research has generally studied both offending behaviors separately, misrepresenting the nature and extent of serial and co-offending and their potential interdependencies. To resolve this, we leverage the recent availability of forensic ...

Researchers often use police-recorded crime data to study offenders’ criminal behaviour, although police data do not include all offences nor all offenders: many crimes are not known to the police and only a small proportion of all registered crime are cleared. Several researchers have expressed concern about the generalizability and applicability of research findings only based on known offenders. Empirical research into unknown offenders ...