Household Composition and Victimization: One-person Household and Its Impact on the Victimization

• In Event: Predicting Victimization: Opportunity and Protective Factors

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. The percentage of single-person households has been on the rise since 1970 and made up the second largest proportion of households in the U.S. in 2016, at 28 percent. As of 2016, there were an estimated 35.89 million single-person households in the U.S., and The number of single-person households has increased gradually since 1960. Studies on victimization, however, rarely consider this. In addition, previous studies on household victimization consider the size of households as protective measure. In this paper, the effect of rising single person household on the risk of household victimization are examined, in particular the effecting of becoming one-person households has a negative impact on one's probability of victimization using National Crime Victimization Survey(NCVS).

Author

• Ji Hyon Kang, University of Ulsan