The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Robbed: Inequality in U.S. Criminal Victimization, 1974–2000
dc.contributor.author | Thacher, David | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:41:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:41:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Thacher, David; (2004). "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Robbed: Inequality in U.S. Criminal Victimization, 1974–2000." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 20(2): 89-116. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45111> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0748-4518 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7799 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45111 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper investigates inequality in criminal victimization in the United States over the past quarter century. By analyzing data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, it shows that the crime drop since the early 1970s has benefited upper-income households much more than the poor, so that criminal victimization has become more concentrated among the poor (particularly in the area of nonstranger violence). The paper then decomposes this trend statistically in order to investigate factors that may explain it. That analysis finds that demographic changes in each quintile explain a significant share of the growing concentration of criminal victimization among the poor. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Sciences, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Inequality | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Demographic Change | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Sociology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Statistics, General | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Criminology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Methodology of the Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Crime Victimization | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Stratification | en_US |
dc.title | The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Robbed: Inequality in U.S. Criminal Victimization, 1974–2000 | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Law and Legal Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Government, Politics and Law | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45111/1/10940_2004_Article_483640.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:JOQC.0000029090.28541.4f | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Quantitative Criminology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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