RT Article
T1 The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Robbed: Inequality in U.S. Criminal Victimization, 1974–2000
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 20
IS 2
SP 89
OP 116
A1 Thacher, David
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764278003
AB This paper investigates inequality in criminal victimization in the United States over the past quarter century. By analyzing data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, it shows that the crime drop since the early 1970s has benefited upper-income households much more than the poor, so that criminal victimization has become more concentrated among the poor (particularly in the area of nonstranger violence). The paper then decomposes this trend statistically in order to investigate factors that may explain it. That analysis finds that demographic changes in each quintile explain a significant share of the growing concentration of criminal victimization among the poor.
K1 Demographic change
K1 Stratification
K1 Inequality
K1 Crime Victimization
DO 10.1023/B:JOQC.0000029090.28541.4f