TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Erwin, Christopher
AU  - Hennecke, Juliane
AU  - Meehan, Lisa
AU  - Pacheco, Gail
        TI  - Dynamic Relationships between Criminal Offending and Victimization
        PY  - 2022/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15757
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15757
        AB  - 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).

        KW  - victim-offender overlap
KW  - population heterogeneity
KW  - crime
KW  - victimization
        ER  -