Victimization Risk among Single-households

• In Event: Communities, Risk, and Victimization

Abstract

Recently, a notable change in the household structure has been an increase in the number of single households, raising a host of health and safety issues for government and community groups. Studies on household victimization, however, rarely consider this. Research on household victimization have shown that the risk of victimization varies with attributes of individual households and characteristics of neighborhoods where households are located. Most of single person households are located in large urban ares, and in some neighborhoods within major cities more than half of households are single occupants. Among single person households, age and their socioeconomic status might significantly differentiate their lifestyle as well as victimization risk. In this paper, the effect of rising single person household on the risk of household victimization are examined and the various types of single person households are analyzed to examine the differences in victimization risk.

Author

• Ji Hyon Kang, University of Ulsan