Wilsem

Crime and context; The impact of individual, neighborhood, city and country characteristics on victimization

Why do some peple become the victim of a crime, while others do not? And why do some neighborhoods, cities and countries have higher crime rates than others? These are the leading questions of this book. The research presented here examines differences in victimization across many countries as well as between neighborhoods and cities within the Netherlands. It scrutinizes crime patterns using large-scale victimization survey data from the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) and the Dutch Police Population Monitor, in addition to World Health Organization (WHO) homicide data. By applying multilevel methods of analysis it addresses issues such as the perverse effects of socioeconomic neighorhood improvement on criminal victimization, the relation between national levels of income inequality and crime, and the potential for crime displacement as a consequence of burglary prevention measures.