title: The concentration of criminal victimization and patterns of routine activities.
abstract: Although many repeat victimization studies have focused on describing the prevalence of the phenomenon, this study attempted to explain variations in the concentration of victimization by applying routine activities as a theoretical model. A multivariate analysis of repeat victimization based on the 2005 Taiwan criminal victimization data supported the general applicability of the routine activity model developed in Western culture for predicting repeat victimization. Findings that diverged from Western patterns included family income to assault, gender to robbery, and marital status, family income, and major activity to larceny incidents. These disparities illustrated the importance of considering the broader sociocultural context in the association between risk predictors and the concentration of criminal victimization. The contradictory results and nonsignificant variance also reflected untapped information on respondents' biological features and psychological tendencies. Future victimization research would do well to integrate measurements that are sensitive to salient sociocultural elements of the society being studied and individuals' biological and psychological traits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminal Justice, West Virginia State University, 740 Roxalana Hills Drive, Dunbar, WV 25064, USA. kuoshihya@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Shih-Ya
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Cuvelier
authors.forename: Chuen-Jim
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Sheu
authors.forename: Jihong Solomon
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000850:Anomie; D002648:Child; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013624:Taiwan; D055815:Young Adult