RT Article
T1 To whom do prior offenders pose a risk?: victim–offender similarity in police-reported violent crime
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 63
IS 11
SP 1410
OP 1433
A1 Aaltonen, Mikko
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1577684222
AB This study assessed whether the higher risk of victimization among criminally active and socially disadvantaged individuals is related to violent incidents including offenders with criminal backgrounds. The analysis is based on a Finnish general population sample (N = 69,635) using a 7-year-follow-up of police-reported violent incidents that enabled the measurement of criminal background of the “outside-sample” opposite parties involved in the incidents. The association between socioeconomic/criminal background and victimization grew stronger by the intensity of the criminal background of the offender. The results indicate that the risk posed by prior offenders is disproportionally targeted toward criminally active and disadvantaged individuals.
K1 Victim–offender overlap
K1 Homophily
K1 Lifestyle/routine activity theory
K1 Social disadvantage
K1 Offending-Victimization-Overlap
K1 Routine-Verhalten
K1 Soziale Benachteiligung
DO 10.1177/0011128716654713