Intergenerational Transmission of Victimization

Sonia Bhalotra, N.Meltem Daysal, Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen, Thomas H. Joergensen and Sebastien Montpetit
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Sonia Bhalotra: University of Warwick
N.Meltem Daysal: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen: University of Oxford
Thomas H. Joergensen: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Sebastien Montpetit: University of Warwick

No 26-11, CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

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 parentwas victimized, with stronger associations if the mother was the victim. Controlling for cohort, municipality, socioeconomic 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J62 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53
Date: 2026-06-09
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