Predicting Risks of Larceny Theft Victimization

A Routine Activity Analysis Using Refined Lifestyle Measures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9680596
AutoresElizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine (University of Central Florida, autor de correspondencia), Richard Tewksbury (University of Louisville Hospital)
Año1998
Volumen36
Número4
Páginas829-858
Fecha de publicación1998-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCriminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.1998.tb01267.x
OpenAlexW2096140440
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas83
Referencias 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