NCJ Number
101182
Journal
Victimology Volume: 10 Issue: 1-4 Dated: (1985) Pages: 325-358
Date Published
1985
Length
34 pages
Annotation
This paper examines responses to actual and feared victimization by rape, robbery, and burglary, with special focus on reactions and outcomes for women and the elderly.
Abstract
It describes what is currently known about people's physical, attitudinal, emotional, financial, interpersonal and community responses to or outcomes from actual criminal victimization and fear of crime. The most important results of attempting to compare these outcomes or responses to several different crimes is the recognition of large gaps in our knowledge and great discrepancies in the questions being asked by researchers investigating different crimes. These gaps and differences in focus arise in large part from the different disciplinary orientations of the researchers. However, some of the difference in research approach can be attributed to the different degrees to which politicization or policy focus is associated with the subjects of the study. (Author abstract)