Intergenerational Transmission of Victimization

Sonia Bhalotra, N. Meltem Daysal, Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Thomas H. Jørgensen and Sébastien Montpetit
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Sonia Bhalotra: University of Warwick
N. Meltem Daysal: University of Copenhagen
Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen: University of Oxford
Thomas H. Jørgensen: University of Copenhagen
Sébastien Montpetit: University of Warwick

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Abstract: 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, socio-economic 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

Keywords: victimization; violent crime; intergenerational transmission; income mobility JEL codes: K42; J12; J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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