Title

Transforming Potential Offenders Into Motivated Ones: Are Sex Offenders Tempted By Alcohol And Pornography?

Abstract

One of the primary concerns of scholars of routine activity theory is the explication of the three core elements necessary for crime to occur. Using sex offenders as a sample of offenders, the present analysis examines the element potential offender and considers whether or not there are differences among offenders and their locations that may transform potential offenders into actively motivated ones. Until recently, most routine activity scholars took potential offenders as a given and used the terms potential and motivated interchangeably. This analysis shows that there is a distinctive difference between the presence of potential offenders and the idea that there may be offenders who are more actively motivated, particularly by the presence of community temptations (e.g., factors that attract or draw offenders to offending). We find that for sexual victimization rates, the presence of potential offenders is insignificant, whereas the presence of potential offenders in combination with the presence of community temptations is significant. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

10-1-2009

Publication Title

Deviant Behavior

Volume

30

Issue

7

Number of Pages

561-588

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/01639620802467821

Socpus ID

70349443428 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/70349443428

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