When Crime Pays: Capital, Competence, and Criminal Success

By B. McCarthy, J. Hagan. 2001

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime: Evidence from the Netherlands ∗ (2008, background): “Oster and Agell (2007) and Gould, Weinberg, and Mustard (2002) show for a panel of Swedish municipalities and American cities that a fall in unemployment led to a drastic decrease in drug possession, auto theft and burglary.”
Men, Women, and Postrelease Offending (2012, background): “Third, identification with a criminal subculture can diminish familial relationships because of the strain and hardships placed on family members (McCarthy & Hagan, 2001; Western, Lopoo, & McLanahan, 2004).”
Is It Who You Know, or How Many That Counts? Criminal Networks and Cost Avoidance in a Sample of Young Offenders (2010, background): “How offenders build and manage their criminal network is crucial in determining their level of success, because criminal capital, as opposed to human capital, accumulates almost exclusively through contact with others (McCarthy & Hagan, 2001).”
Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the “successful” sex offender (2011, methodology): “McCarthy and Hagan (2001) have proposed instead that criminal human and criminal social capital may be more relevant than conventional capital to the issue criminal achievement.”
Criminal Self-Efficacy (2012, methodology): “…few hundred dollars per month—and could easily be described as criminal “failures” by observers (Wilson & Abrahamse, 1992), researchers have noted substantial variation among individual offenders in terms of their net monetary returns from crime (McCarthy & Hagan, 2001; Tremblay & Morselli, 2000).”
MENTORS AND CRIMINAL ACHIEVEMENT (2006, background): “More recent research has focused on various forms of co-offending and finds that recruitment-like roles appear in a diversity of settings (Decker and Van Winkle, 1996; McCarthy et al., 1998; Padilla, 1991). In his ethnography of the inner city, Sullivan (1989) reports that many of the adolescents he”
NEW ECONOMICS OF SOCIOLOGICAL CRIMINOLOGY (2002, background): “For example, research on homeless youth reports that, on average, youth who sold drugs earned $101 a day, compared to the average legal daily wage of $37 for legitimate employment (McCarthy & Hagan 2001).”