Individual and contextual determinants of victimisation in Brazilian urban centres: A multilevel approach

Klebson Moura and Raul Silveira Neto ()
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Klebson Moura: Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Urban Studies, 2016, vol. 53, issue 8, 1559-1573

Abstract: This article analyses the influence of both contextual and individual urban characteristics on violence victimisation in Brazilian cities. A multilevel approach is used to capture the effects of the urban contextual variables with respect to the probability of becoming a robbery victim in Brazilian urban centres. The results demonstrate that factors associated with social context, such as proportions of cities’ recent migrants or female-headed households, affect victimisation, as do individual characteristics. Furthermore, based on an analysis of the intra-class correlation coefficients, the context produces a non-negligible amount of variability.

Keywords: crime; economics; hierarchical analysis; individual characteristics; robbery; social context; South America; victimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098015580899

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