TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bhalotra, Sonia R.
AU  - Daysal, N. Meltem
AU  - Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard
AU  - Jørgensen, Thomas
AU  - Montpetit, Sebastien
        TI  - Intergenerational Transmission of Victimization
        PY  - 2026/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18681
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18681
        AB  - Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization. Sons are twice as likely, and daughters three times as likely, to be victimized if a parent was victimized, with stronger associations if the mother was the victim. Controlling for cohort, municipality, socioeconomic factors, parental cohabitation, and parental offending explains about 60% of this correlation. The link is weaker in higher-income families; it persists for sons, but is driven to zero for daughters. Further, children of victimized parents experience lower absolute income mobility, comparable to the Black-White difference for men in the United States.
        KW  - victimization
KW  - violent crime
KW  - intergenerational transmission
KW  - income mobility
        ER  -