Dynamic Relationships between Criminal Offending and Victimization

Arbeitspapier

A stylized fact in criminology holds that those who commit crimes are more likely to be victims of crime, and vice versa. We use population-level administrative data of all police investigations in New Zealand to examine the possibility of this victim-offender overlap. Two-way fixed effects and dynamic panel models explore intertemporal relationships between victimization and offending. This analysis reveals that victim-offender overlap predominantly reflects population heterogeneity. However, a dynamic relationship does exist, and is primarily driven by 1) criminal incidents occurring close together in time and 2) simultaneous incidents where individuals are both offenders and victims (e.g., mutually combative assaults).

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15757

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis ; Criminal Law ; Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
• Thema: victim-offender overlap ; population heterogeneity ; crime ; victimization

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Erwin, Christopher ; Hennecke, Juliane ; Meehan, Lisa ; Pacheco, Gail
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/272384
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ