Citation

Lauritsen JL. J. Quant. Criminol. 2010; 26(4): 501-508.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10940-010-9118-2

PMID

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Abstract

A quick perusal through the past 25 years of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology provides a convenient summary of the way in which criminologists often describe the status of victimization research. During this period, a relatively small but respectable number of articles (approximately 10-15%) have focused either on the topic of victimization, or have used victim-based data to assess some other criminological issue. This proportion is not inconsistent with other leading journals in the field, but it seems to have suggested to some researchers that study of the causes and consequences of victimization constitutes a relatively small subfield within the field of criminology, and perhaps an unruly subfield as well. In this paper, I briefly discuss the origins of victimization research to show how this view may have come about, and follow by noting just a few of the contributions of victimization data and research and how they have advanced the field of criminology. I contend that the...

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