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Repeat victimization in the ICVS and the NCVS
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posted on 2006-02-08, 17:43 authored by Graham Farrell, Andromachi Tseloni, Ken PeaseOverall, 40 per cent of crimes reported to the International Crime Victims Survey
(ICVS) in 2000 were repeats against the same target within a year, with variation by
crime type and country. However, policy makers have yet to realise the potential of
victim-oriented crime reduction strategies. A preliminary comparison of repeat
victimization uncovered by the ICVS and the US National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS) finds ICVS rates are double those of the NCVS. The NCVS may be seriously
flawed in the manner in which it measures repeat victimization, and hence crime
overall. Further study is needed, but since the NCVS is an influential survey, the
possibility that it is misleading may have widespread implications for crime-related
research, theory, policy and practice in the United States and elsewhere.
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FARRELL, G., TSELONI, A. and PEASE, K., 2005. Repeat victimization in the ICVS and the NCVS. Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, 7(3), pp. 7-18.Publisher
© Perpetuity PressPublication date
2005Notes
This article was published in the journal, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal [© Perpetutity Press].Language
- en
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