The Concentration of Criminal Victimization and Patterns of Routine Activities
| Autor: | Chuen-Jim Sheu, Shih-Ya Kuo, Jihong Solomon Zhao, Steven J. Cuvelier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison Male Multivariate analysis Adolescent education Taiwan Family income Social Environment Pathology and Forensic Medicine Developmental psychology Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anomie Recurrence Risk Factors Humans Poisson Distribution Western culture Child Association (psychology) Life Style Crime Victims History Ancient health care economics and organizations Applied Psychology Aged Data Collection Social environment social sciences Variance (accounting) Middle Aged Circadian Rhythm Socioeconomic Factors Multivariate Analysis Marital status Female Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 56:573-598 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6933 0306-624X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0306624x11400715 |
| Popis: | Although many repeat victimization studies have focused on describing the prevalence of the phenomenon, this study attempted to explain variations in the concentration of victimization by applying routine activities as a theoretical model. A multivariate analysis of repeat victimization based on the 2005 Taiwan criminal victimization data supported the general applicability of the routine activity model developed in Western culture for predicting repeat victimization. Findings that diverged from Western patterns included family income to assault, gender to robbery, and marital status, family income, and major activity to larceny incidents. These disparities illustrated the importance of considering the broader sociocultural context in the association between risk predictors and the concentration of criminal victimization. The contradictory results and nonsignificant variance also reflected untapped information on respondents’ biological features and psychological tendencies. Future victimization research would do well to integrate measurements that are sensitive to salient sociocultural elements of the society being studied and individuals’ biological and psychological traits. |
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