NCJ Number: 189392
Title: International Overview: A Cross-National Comparison of Rates of Repeat Victimization (From Repeat Victimization, P 5-25, 2001, Graham Farrell and Ken Pease, eds. -- See NCJ-189391)
Author(s): Graham Farrell; Adam C. Bouloukos
Date Published: 2001
Page Count: 21
Sponsoring Agency: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
Sale Source: Criminal Justice Press/Willow Tree Press
Type: Survey
Format: Book (Softbound)
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Annotation: This chapter compares the rate of repeat criminal victimization
-- the proportion of crimes that were repeated against the same
persons or household -- across country and crime type for the
1989, 1992, and 1996 sweeps of the International Crime Victims
Survey (ICVS).
Abstract: The offenses for which repeat victimization was examined were
burglary, attempted burglary, car theft, car vandalism, assault
and threats, bicycle theft, motorcycle theft, personal theft,
robbery, and sex offenses. The mean international repeat
victimization rates were consistent across ICVS sweeps. Using
this indicator, rates of repeat victimization have changed little
over time as a proportion of all crime. Generally, personal
crimes had higher rates of repeat victimization than property
crimes. Of the crime types addressed in the survey, sex offenses
consistently had the highest rates of repeat victimization.
Between 40 percent and 50 percent of sex offenses were repeat
offenses against the same women for each sweep of the survey.
Between 30 percent and 40 percent of all assaults and robberies
were repeat victimizations of the same persons, followed by
robberies and car vandalism. Assaults and threats also showed
high and consistent rates of repeat victimization across
countries. Eight of the 11 countries for which 1996 rates were
available had a 5-percent band between 40 percent and 45 percent
of all assaults and threats being repeated against the same
persons. Repeated robbery, at approximately 28 percent of all
robberies, had the third highest mean international rate of
repeat victimization. Car vandalism was likely to be repeated,
more so than theft of or from cars. Suggestions are offered for
future research in this area. 7 figures, 5 tables, and 4
references
Main Term(s): Multiple victimization
Index Term(s): Country-by-country surveys; Cross-cultural comparisons; Victimization surveys
Note: Crime Prevention Studies, V 12
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