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The British Journal of Criminology 38:429-452 (1998)
© 1998 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

VICTIMIZATION REVISITED

A Case Study of Non-residential Repeat Burglary on Merseyside

KATE J. BOWERS, ALEX HIRSCHFIELD and SHANE D. JOHNSON

Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX. The research discussed in this paper is supported by the Safer Merseyside Partnership. The authors wish to thank Merseyside Police and Merseyside Information Service for supplying data sets that have been used in the research. Many thanks also to Professors Nick Tilley and John Burrows for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

There is a dearth of research concerned with repeat victimization of non-residential properties. The present study examines the extent and time course of repeat burglary against such properties. The results demonstrate that the risk of repeat burglary suffered by non-residential properties is greater than their residential counterparts and that, in common with residential burglary, the time course of repeat non-residential burglary conforms to an exponential model. A comparison of the level of repeat vitimization for different categories of non-residential property reveals that certain types of non-residential properties, in particular educational establishments and sports facilities, suffered from disproportionately high levels of repeat burglary and are likely to sufferfrom a repeat in a very short time period following an initial incident. Other findings highlight the importance of locational factors in determining levels of repeat burglary. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the research findings might be used to inform crime prevention strategies.


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