Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272384 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15757
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A stylized fact in criminology holds that those who commit crimes are more likely to be victims of crime, and vice versa. We use population-level administrative data of all police investigations in New Zealand to examine the possibility of this victim-offender overlap. Two-way fixed effects and dynamic panel models explore intertemporal relationships between victimization and offending. This analysis reveals that victim-offender overlap predominantly reflects population heterogeneity. However, a dynamic relationship does exist, and is primarily driven by 1) criminal incidents occurring close together in time and 2) simultaneous incidents where individuals are both offenders and victims (e.g., mutually combative assaults).
Subjects: 
victim-offender overlap
population heterogeneity
crime
victimization
JEL: 
C55
K14
K42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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