criminal prevention from repeated victimization

Gender and Criminal Victimization in Barbados

The interrelationship between gender and criminal victimization has been well document in the literature for various jurisdictions around the globe. This article examines these interrelationships for Barbados, and provides a synthesis of evidence to support the general notion in the literature that gender is related to fear of crime, types of crime and impact of criminal victimization. The stud...

Self - Report Surveys as Measures of Crime and Criminal Victimization Criminal Justice

Self-report surveys of victimization have become commonplace in discussions of crime and criminal justice policy. Changes in the rates at which residents of the country are victimized by crime have taken a place alongside the Federal Bureau of Investigation index of crimes known to the police as widely used indicators of the state of society and the efficacy of its governance. While a great dea...

Criminal Victimization 2001: Changes 2000-2001 with Trends 1993-2001

Americans age 12 or older experienced approximately 24.2 million violent and property victimizations in 2001 according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Overall criminal victimizations included about 18.3 million property crimes (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and theft), 5.7 million violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault), and abo...

Violence prevention: criminal justice or public health?

The Prevention of Repeated Crime

These two books so different in content and in method nevertheless have a common point of view. Both authors make it transparently clear that our present philosophy of correction, or punishment, is woefully inadequate to meet the problem of modem crime. Both volumes are the work of painstaking and careful scholars who remain calm and objective when their findings cry to heaven for a vigorous an...

Criminal victimization and comorbid substance use and psychiatric disorders in the United States: results from the NESARC.

PURPOSE Criminal victimization produces enormous personal and societal costs, yet few investigations have systematically examined substance use and psychiatric disorders of crime victims. Our objectives were to (i) examine the prevalence and patterns of criminal victimization in the United States and (ii) their associations with specific substance use disorders, prevalent psychiatric conditions...