Victimization, Social Structure and Psychosocial Variables: The Case of Spain in 1999 and 2016

Gonzalo Herranz de Rafael and Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados
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Gonzalo Herranz de Rafael: Department of State Law and Sociology, Sociology Area, University of Malaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados: Department of Geography, History and Humanities, Sociology Area, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain

Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 8, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: This article reviews the research on the factors influencing victimization and explores the case of Spain. The first section presents a comparative analysis of the data for 1999 and 2016 in terms of perceptions, profiles and the most significant sociodemographic and socioeconomic variables. The second section shows an explanatory analysis based on multivariate logistical regression models, using as independent variables sociodemographic and psychosocial items, and the dependent variable is whether one is described as one is described as a victim or no in the 2016 survey. The results point towards an explanatory model of victimization in which sociodemographic variables play a less important role, whereas psychosocial variables related to lifestyle and subjective perceptions make a significant contribution to greater understanding of the nature of being the victim of a crime and offer suggestions on how to improve Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).

Keywords: victimization; lifestyles; crime; social structure; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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