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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
THE EFFECT OF CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION ON A HOUSEHOLD'S MOVING DECISION*
Contributor:
DUGAN, LAURA
Published:
Wiley, 1999
Published in:
Criminology, 37 (1999) 4, Seite 903-930
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1999.tb00509.x
ISSN:
0011-1384;
1745-9125
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Only a small body of research addresses the impact of criminal victimization on moving (Skogan, 1990; Taub et al. 1984). Knowledge of this under‐researched relationship is important for three reasons. First, moving is costly to the victim both in monetary and psychological terms. Second, if a victimization‐mobility relationship exists, then it may partially explain why people migrate to suburban areas from cities. Third, because residential mobility reduces social control that, in turn, potentially results in more crime, evidence that criminal victimization leads to more mobility may help explain a cycle that perpetuates disorder and neighborhood decline (Bursik and Grasmick, 1993; Horwitz, 1990; Miethe and Meier, 1994; Skogan, 1990; Skogan and Maxfield, 1981). This study uses a longitudinal version of the National Crime Survey that includes 22, 375 households to test the hypothesis that criminal victimization is associated with an increased probability that a household moves.