Repeat Victimisation
See Repeat Victimisation Toolkit.
The advantages of preventing repeat victimisation as a strategy of crime control
are as follows:
Focusing on repeats automatically concentrates effort on areas of highest crime
Focusing on repeats automatically concentrates on individuals at greatest risk
of future victimisation.
Time analysis of repeat victimisation suggests that resources can be focused
temporally as well as spatially.
Insofar as repeated offences against the same target are the work of the same
perpetrator(s), clearance of a series of crimes and linked property recovery is made
more likely than was the case when events were seen as independent.
Repeat crimes are disproportionately the work of prolific offenders, so the
prevention/detection of attempts at repetition provides an effective way of targeting
prolific offenders.
(based on ‘Repeat Victimisation: Taking Stock’, Crime Detection and Prevention
Series Paper 90 London: Home Office 1998 page v-vi) LINK
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