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Research on burglary consistently finds it male-gender-related and the 2018 UCR data reported four fifths (81%) of burglary arrests were of men and boys (see Figure 5.1). In one of the few studies on burglary and gender, Decker and his colleagues (1993) drew on over a hundred interviews with burglars and found men were more likely to commit additional crimes on top of the burglary (at the same incident), to start their “burglary careers” at a younger age, and to have committed more burglaries than women. Women burglars were more likely to co-offend and to report having a drug addiction (there was no gender difference in using drugs) (S. Decker et al., 1993). Kuhns and his colleagues’ (2017) large study of burglars found women reported more drug use and that their burglaries were “primarily motivated by their drug use,” and men were more likely to get arrested for the robberies they committed (p. 116). Using the same data set, Mullins and Wright (2003) found regardless of gender, most burglars were initiated into this crime with “older friends, family members or street associates,” but men were more likely recruited by male peers, whereas women and girls were more likely recruited through boyfriends (p. 819). Moreover, female respondents were more worried about what their families would think about them. Roth and King’s (2019) recent aggregate UCR study on larceny referenced earlier also studied burglary and found “unemployment” had the biggest impact on both genders’ burglary arrests, and drug arrests were also related to both genders’ burglary rates. Both income and percentage of Black people in the neighborhood predicted women’s, but not men’s, burglary, but contrary to hypotheses, a greater percentage of Black women and lower median income both significantly decreased women’s burglary rates.