Predicting Risks of Larceny Theft Victimization

A Routine Activity Analysis Using Refined Lifestyle Measures

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9680596
AutoresElizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine (University of Central Florida, autor correspondente), Richard Tewksbury (University of Louisville Hospital)
Ano1998
Volume36
Fascículo4
Páginas829-858
Data de publicação1998-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCriminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.1998.tb01267.x
OpenAlexW2096140440
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas83
Referências citadas35

Routine activity theory has long been plagued by a heavy reliance on proxy measures of lifestyles, which typically include demographic variables that are regularly used as measures of lifestyle and behavior. This reliance on indirect measures forces researchers to suppose how and why these indicators are related to victimization risks. Using detailed measurements of activities and specific structural aspects of communities is clearly more desirable and beneficial when seeking to explain variances in victimization risks. This research advances theoretical understandings of victimization risks through an analysis of specific social activities, aspects of neighborhoods, and contribution of each to the risks of larceny victimization for college students. We find that greater specificity in measuring lifestyles is warranted, for it is not just leaving one's home and going out in public that increases one's risk for victimization (a typical finding of routine activity theory scholars), but where one goes and what one does that are the important larceny victimization predictors

Criminology · Proxy (statistics · Statistics · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies