Victims Behavior Analysis

By looking at this article they are comparing and contrasting between two groups of people that are likely to victimized and there respond after being victimized. This article looks at the result of victims behavioral changes in dealing with day to day activities in dealing with crisis and maintaining productive lifestyles. In considering the environment, lifestyles and age of the subject’s economic status were key in this study. The study determines how the treatment group and the control are being victimized based on their lifestyle.
The research studied at least 25000 people from the National Crime Victimization Survey from 1998 to 1999. These people were selected from The United States and The district of Columbia. Every member of the household of at least 12 years old were interviews in the panel discussion that took place every six months. “Approximately 50,000 households are selected in each interview period and all members of the household.” The interview lasted during a 3-year period. There were 6 interviews that took place in that 3-year span.
The study excluded adolescents under the age of 18 because they are subject to different victimization than adults who are legal in the eyes of the justice system. In the research, indicated young people are victimized more
than adults but the study does not included individuals that are under the of 18. “The NCVS uses a rotating panel design in which one sixth of households exit the survey every 6 months and are replaced by new households.” The cycle continued for several years during the study.
This study talks about how people who are high risks takers are likely to be victimized by the law enforcement. This longitudinal study determines whether people with risky lifestyles are more likely to be victimized than people with less risky lifestyle. The study takes into account on between people that shop at night and people that go out at night time. According to Averdijk’s, “there was no relationship between victimization and lifestyle changes: Property crime was unrelated to shopping, and neither nighttime activity nor the possession of household devices was found to be affected by victimization.” These two activities put people at more risk because they get out of the comfort of their own homes and stepping on the street during the night. These two groups of people are choice because the researcher believe that these groups are more likely to be victimized. The author, “examine whether victimized people change their routine activities following victimization or whether there is an association between victimization and subsequent high-risk activities.”
This Research utilizes different races and categories that includes genders, races, incomes based households. Individual in large houses have an increase victimization than those of smaller families. The author makes a point that home owners receive less victimization than people that rent their living space. Men are more likely to be victim than women. Minorities are always the victim of different circumstance that Black, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Even in society today people that have more money have more. For example, poor people are more like be incarcerated at a higher level that individual that have money or parents are rich.
The Research should have been based on races because people with darker skin colors or have more pigment in their skin are more like to be victimized. This would bring a whole different perspective on this research. As the research showed minorities are the groups that people choose to victimize. Even in 2016, minorities are still being treated unfairly in the justice system and also in society.
Some of the researchers believe that victimization should not be measured on lifestyle. “All of these studies measure how victimization influences changes in lifestyles. Measuring lifestyle changes, however, may not be the best way to examine the effect of victimization on lifestyle” Several studies indicate that people that have been victimized are more likely to be cautions and like to own “a watchdog.”
The study concluded that, “The reasons that victims spend more time away from home at night and shop more frequently are rooted in their underlying differences from nonvictims, not the experience of victimization” People who are victimized are more like to engage in violent crime.
When people are victimized will change their behavior. Although lifestyle is related to risk of being victim, but the “study indicates that, following victimization, victims do possess riskier lifestyles than nonvictimized individuals, suggesting that they are at greater risk of repeat victimization” Some people were unable to complete the three phase interviews because they were victimized. These victims
relocated.
Throughout the study, the researchers did a good job of bringing in different people of different races, incomes, and lifestyle. The study utilized studies from previous experiments and improved on it. There were limitations but they did not alter the result of the research. In the future this research, this study could be used in a bigger scale of the population and different aspects could be added to improve the research.