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Offenders as victims of crime?: an investigation into the relationship between criminal behaviour and victimization
Author(s) -
Deadman Derek,
MacDonald Ziggy
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-985x.2004.00291.x
Subject(s) - bivariate analysis , multivariate probit model , univariate , psychology , association (psychology) , criminology , probit , probit model , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , social psychology , econometrics , multivariate statistics , statistics , economics , environmental health , medicine , mathematics , psychotherapist
Summary. We consider the association between victimization and offending behaviour by using data from the Youth Lifestyles Survey. We consider the effect of violent and non‐violent offending on the probability of being a victim of violent and non‐violent crime and find a positive association between these by using univariate probit estimates. However, taking into account the endog‐ enous nature of offending and victimization via a bivariate probit model, we find that univariate estimates understate the association. We suggest that policy recommendations should only be informed by the bivariate analysis of the association between offending and victimization.