Opportunity, Choice, and Criminal Victimization
A Test of a Theoretical Model
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19601400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terance D Miethe (0000-0002-7771-7865), Robert F Meier |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-266 |
| Publication date | 1990-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4278 • E-ISSN: 1552-731X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022427890027003003 |
| OpenAlex | W2162540381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 114 |
| References cited | 15 |
The present article examines the key concepts underlying victimization theories (i.e., exposure, proximity, target attractiveness, guardianship). Measures of each concept are developed and evaluated in terms of their ability to explain individuals' risks of residential burglary, personal theft, and personal violence. Using data from 5,271 respondents in the British Crime Survey, mixed empirical support is found for the structural-choice model underlying current victimization theories. Specifically, the structural components of these theories (proximity and exposure) are more consistently related to victimization experiences than the target-selection or choice components (attractiveness and guardianship). Multiplicative models that test for interaction among these major variables also produce results that are contrary to theoretical productions. The authors conclude that present theories do not adequately describe individuals' risks of victimization and discuss some alternative directions for future research on criminal victimization
Attractiveness · Criminal behavior · Criminology · Empirical research · Legal guardian · Political science · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Test (biology) · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Modeling Sanction Choices on Fraudulent Benefit Exchanges in Public Service Delivery
The Role of Social Learning in Understanding Deviance
Intimate Partner Stalking among College Students
Urban-Rural Residence and Criminal Victimization
Victimology
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Segregation and School Violence
Supply by Theft
Safe Streets for Whom? Homeless Youth, Social Exclusion, and Criminal Victimization
Integrating the general theory of crime into an explanation of violent victimization among female offenders
Online Routines and Identity Theft Victimization
Gender, Self-Control, and Crime
“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”
The Novelty of ‘Cybercrime’
Guardians on Guardianship
Repeat Personal Victimization. 'Boosts' or 'Flags
Adolescent Victims of Violence in a Welfare State
Burglary Victimization in England and Wales, the United States and the Netherlands
The Role of Low Self-Control and Risky Lifestyles in Criminal Victimization
Are Repeatedly Extorted Businesses Different? A Multilevel Hurdle Model of Extortion Victimization
Advancing the Study of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Understanding the Sexual Victimization of Child and Elder Victims under the Lens of Interactional Victimology
Identifying victim types in sexual homicide
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents
Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization
Lost Highways
Relationship Between Socioeconomic Conditions and Financial Fraud Victimization Among Older Adults in China
Impacts of Low Self-control and Opportunity Structure on Cyberbullying Developmental Trajectories
Household Guardians
Examining Cyber Fraud Victimization Among Chinese Adolescents
Understanding the Predictors of Street Robbery Hot Spots
Individual Vulnerability and Organizational Context as Risks for Sexual Harassment among Female Graduate Students
Social and Physical Neighbourhood Effects and Crime
Opportunities for property victimization
Victimization immunity and lifestyle
Predicting Fear of Crime
Policing the homeless
Street-level corruption in industrialized and developing countries
Changing perspectives on guardianship against crime
The concept of capable guardianship
Direct and indirect effects of low self-control on the personal victimization of South Korean youth
Exploring the human factor in cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime victimisation
Routine Activity Theory and Sexual Deviance Among Male College Students
Adolescent Victimization
Do structural choice theory and the ‘risky lifestyles’ perspectives predict immunity as well as victimization? A test using zero-inflated mixed-effect SEM analyses of adolescent victimizations in South Korea
Self-Reported Violent Victimization Among Young Adults in Miami, Florida
Regional, structural, and demographic predictors of violent victimization
The nature and frequency of homeless contacts with the police
Rethinking Homicide
The 50th Anniversary of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Studying Repeat Victimization
Victimization Trends and Correlates
LatCrit and Criminology
Using routine activity theory to inform a conceptual understanding of the geography of fire events
Being Pursued Online
Testing the Core Empirical Implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime
Personal Vulnerability to Victimization of People with Mental Retardation
Bullying and Other Forms of Peer Victimization in Adolescence and Alcohol Use
Street Youth Violence And Victimization
Comparing the Lifestyles of Victims, Offenders, and Victim-Offenders
Urbanization, Inequality, Lifestyles and Robbery
Robbery victimization of Mexican migrants while crossing the border
Criminal Victimization of Central American Migrants in Transit Through Mexico
Collective Guardianship, Reactive and Proactive
Gender differences in child sexual abuse in China
Antecedents of Physical and Sexual Victimization Among Homeless Women
Growing up in a Violent Society
Social Networks of Homeless Youth in Emerging Adulthood
Protecting High-Risk Youth in High-Risk Contexts
Consistency in crime site selection
An opportunity model of safety risks among jail officers
Age, self-control, and adults’ offending behaviors
Deviant lifestyle and crime victimization
Community structural predictors of spatially aggregated motor vehicle theft rates
The perception of risk in the workplace
Adolescent school-based sexual victimization
Urban crime trends and patterns in Ghana
Criminal victimization in South Korea
Daylight and Darkness Targeting Strategies and the Risks of Being Seen at Residential Burglaries
Low Self‐control, Routine Activities, and Fraud Victimization
Crime in the Ivory Tower
The Differential Risk of Retaliation by Relational Distance
Furthering the Integration of Routine Activity and Social Disorganization Theories
Macro‐micro Integration in the Study of Victimization
Guardianship in Context
The Role of Public Social Control in Urban Neighborhoods
The Effects of Residential Turnover on Household Victimization
How Collective Is Collective Efficacy? The Importance of Consensus in Judgments About Community Cohesion and Willingness to Intervene
Citizen‐based Crime Control Activity and Victimization Risks
A spatial analysis of crime in Vancouver, British Columbia
Ordinary Business
Street Codes, Routine Activities, Neighbourhood Context and Victimization
Parent-Child Connections on Social Networking Sites and Cyberbullying
Exposure to Aggressors at School and Cyberbullying Victimization
Leisure Worlds
Criminal Opportunity Theory and the Relationship Between Poverty and Property Crime
Opportunity Theory and Agricultural Crime Victimization
Property Offenses in Ghana
Routine Activities and Television Viewing
Risky behaviors and personal victimization in Taiwan
Theoretical methods in criminology
Linking the micro- and macro-level dimensions of lifestyle-routine activity and opportunity models of predatory victimization
Human ecology and crime
Elderly Victims of Crime and Exposure to Risk
Social Inequality and Predatory Criminal Victimization
Social Differentiation in Criminal Victimization
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime
Property Crime Rates in the United States
| Unique citing works | 114 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,26 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 106 |