Unveiling the Determinants of Persistent Juvenile Victimizations in South Korea

• In Event: Crime victimization and Recividism among juveniles in South Korea

Abstract

Since 1990s, the concentration of victimizations on a small portion of the population has attracted the academic interest in crime prevention studies. Earlier studies designated this concentration as “repeat victimization” and produced a large amount of policy-driven literatures. These studies revealed two intertwined reasons: (1) individual heterogeneity where there is enduring uneven risk of victimization – flags – which causes repeat victimization; and (2) event dependence where the previous victimization boosts the risk of future victimization. Previous studies, however, mainly analyzed an aggregated-level distribution of victimizations in a given period, and did not employ a longitudinal data. This study tries to fill this gap by analyzing a longitudinal aspect of repeat victimization in the Korean Youth Panel Survey.

Authors

• Yun Seun Ha, Georgia State University

• Seong min Park, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga