The phenomena of multiple victimization. The relationship between personaland property crime risk

Recent research has been concerned with repeat victimization. In this paper , we focus on another form of multiple victimization-multiple crime-type vi ctimization (MCV); that is, the extent to which some households or persons are victims of more than one kind of offence over a given period. First, we discuss three features of our present understanding of multiple victimizat ion-repetition over time, specificity, and risk transmission. Second, we fi t an appropriate multivariate statistical model to data taken from the 1992 British Crime Survey (BCS) in an effort to identify antecedents and correl ates of MCV; and third, we discuss some of the implications of this analysi s for a general understanding of crime victimization.