Victims, offenders and victim-offender overlaps of knife crime: A social network analysis approach using police records

Victim, Offender, and Situational Characteristics of Violent Crime

Victim and offender self-reports of alcohol involvement in crime.

Research suggests that a decreasing share of violent crime is attributable to offenders who had been drinking alcoholic beverages. Surveys of victims indicate that the rate of alcohol-involved violent crimes (i.e., crimes in which the perpetrators had been drinking, as perceived by the victims) decreased 34 percent from 1993 to 1998, whereas the rate of non-alcohol-involved violence decreased 2...

Restorative Justice Conferencing (RJC) Using Face-to-Face Meetings of Offenders and Victims: Effects on Offender Recidivism and Victim Satisfaction. A Systematic Review

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.[delete if co-registered] Contributions Heather Strang and Lawrence W. Sherman contributed to the writing and revising of this Review. Daniel J. Woods and Barak A...

Criminal Victims, Victimized Criminals, or Both? an Econometric Analysis of the Victim‐offender Overlap

Offenders are more likely than non‐offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non‐victims to be offenders. So far, the overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime this stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. One of the major limiting problems seems to be the lack of adequate individual data. This paper tries t...

Representations of Victims, Suspects and Offenders: A Content Analysis of Four Television Crime Shows

This study draws on Social Learning Theory and uses a content analysis to critically examine the representations of victims, suspects and offenders on fictional crime television shows. Specifically, four such shows were studied: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, Body of Proof and Rizzoli & Isles. Although some previous research assessed the representations of suspects and off...