Book Review: Repeat Victimization
| Author | Vincent Mercer |
| Published date | 01 September 2001 |
| Date | 01 September 2001 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026975800100800308 |
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impunity.
Official statistics,
however,
showed
a
lower
crime
rate
than
in
the
rest
of
the
UK.
Were
the
reporting
rates
depressed
by
a
lack
of trust
in
the
police,
as
in
other divided societies?
The
survey
was
designed
to
address
this
question,
and
found
that
the
Northern Ireland crime rate
is
indeed
one
of
the
lowest
in
western
industrialised countries,
and
that
the
difference
between
urban
and
rural areas
is
less
stark
than
elsewhere.
Many
respondents
placed
issues
including unemploy-
ment
and
the lack of
youth
facilities higher
than
crime
in
their list of local social
problems about
which
they
were
concerned.
Working
class
Catholic respondents
were
particularly
likely
to
avoid
reporting crimes
to
the
police,
not
only
because
they mistrusted
them,
but
also
in
some
cases
to
avoid
attracting police attention
or because
they
preferred
to
deal
with
matters
themselves.
As
in
other societies
in
transition,
there
is
a
new
emphasis
on
community
policing
in
Northern Ireland,
linked
to
issues
of
legitimacy.
This,
along
with
criminal justice partnerships
and
the
new
risk
penalty,
receives illuminating
coverage
in
the discussion of
the
detailed
findings
of the
survey.
This
is
a fascinating
study,
and
it
deserves
a
wide
readership.
REPEAT
VICTIMIZATION
Brian
Williams
Community
and
Criminal Justice Studies
Unit,
De
Montfort
University,
Leicester,
UK.
Edited
by
Graham
Farrell
and
Ken
Pease.
The
Criminal
Justice
Press:
New
York,
2001,
254
pages,
ISBN
1-881798-26-7
(cloth)
$47.50
1-881798-26-5
(paper),
$37.50.
One
analysis of
the
British
Crime
Survey
indicated
that
44%
of
all
crime
is
concentrated
on
4%
of
victims.
This
one
fact
alone
is
sufficient
to
warrant a
detailed examination of
the
effects of repeat victimisation.
This
book
is
volume
12
of a
series
titled
Crime
Prevention
Studies
and
consists
of
12
chapters exploring
issues
around
the
common
theme
of repeat victimis-
ation.
Perhaps
not
surprisingly
the
primary
focus
of
much
of the
work
relates
to
a crime prevention perspective.
Consequently
only
a
few
chapters detail
the
objective reality of
this
phenomenon
from
the
view
of
the
victims
and
the
resulting consequences
for
them.
In
that
sense
Mandy
Shaw's contribution,
'Time
heals
all
wounds?'
spoke
the
most
eloquently
to
me
about
the
emotional
and
physical
impact
of
being
a
repeated
victim.
The
initial chapter
by
Farrell
and
Bouloukos
provides
a fascinating interna-
tional
overview;
they
point
out
that
much
research
on
repeat victimisation
has
taken place
on
a
local
or national
level.
This
has
left sceptics
to
argue that it
may
be
an
isolated
phenomenon.
By
using
a
cross
national
comparison of different
crime
types
based
on
data spanning a
decade
and
drawn
from
the
International
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