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Understanding Theories of Criminal Victimization
Abstract
Current theories of victimization have generated a sizable body of empirical research, mostly within the last two decades. The two most widely known perspectives, lifestyle-exposure and routine activities theories, have been the object of much current thinking and empirical testing, but their maturation has been hampered by many of the same problems impeding theories of criminality. These include inadequate attention to variation by type of crime, compartmentalized thinking, poor links between theory and data, inadequate measures of key concepts, and failure to specify clearly functional relationships between sets of variables. Many of these problems can be addressed by closer examination of the interrelationships among victims, offenders, and criminal situations. Victimization theories should be incorporated into comprehensive integrated theories of crime.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Meier, R. F., & Miethe, T. D.
- Venue
- Crime and Justice
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1993-01
- Volume
- 17
- Pages
- 459-499
- ISSN
- 0192-3234 (ISSN-L)
- 2153-0416
- OpenAlex
- W2093270756
- Cited by
- 300
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 11.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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