RT Article
T1 How Swiftly Does Re-Victimisation Occur? Evidence from Surveys of Victims
JF Crime prevention and community safety
VO 22
IS 3
SP 248
OP 260
A1 Ignatans, Dainis
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1765383269
AB The observation that victimisation raises the probability of subsequent victimisation is well established. That repeat crimes tend to happen quickly is important in the preventive utility of the phenomenon. However, the time decay curve of repeat victimisation is conventionally studied using police recorded crime data, making it susceptible to alternative explanations by confounding actual victimisation with rates of victim report to the police. The present paper reports an attempt to use victimisation survey data to demonstrate decay curves. The analyses show that households experiencing a high frequency of repeat victimisation experience repeats much sooner than households where repeats occur fewer times. Subsequent repeats take place ever more quickly after the preceding one. Quick victimisation is perceived to be increasingly serious the sooner it occurs.
K1 Quantitative criminology
K1 Time lag
K1 Repeat victimisation
K1 CSEW
DO 10.1057/s41300-020-00090-x