Repeat Victimisation in the Asian Community: A Study of Domestic Burglary
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Repeat Victimisation in the Asian Community: A Study of Domestic Burglary Paul Gray 1 This paper broaches the important question of whether Asian populations experience any differences in repeat victimisation. It focuses on domestic burglary in Rochdale, England. A regression found that while the proportion of the population in an area that is Asian is significantly positively related to the incidence of burglary, it is significantly negatively related to the concentration of burglary. Some reasons for this finding that the incidence of burglary in Asian areas is caused by a high prevalence rather than concentration are discussed, as well as the implications of this finding for crime prevention strategies. Key Words: Repeat victimisation; incidence; concentration; ethnicity Introduction There is increasing evidence that vulnerability to crime is very unevenly distributed. Analysis of repeat victimisation has demonstrated the extent to which victimisation concentrates, not just on particular geographic areas and particular social groups, but particular individuals.2 Although research has shown that repeat victimisation is a widespread phenomenon across a wide range of crimes,3 it has so far tended to overlook the possibility that Asian populations may experience any differences in repeat victimisation. In Britain, areas with a high Asian population are predominantly high-crime areas.4 It has also been shown that repeat victimisation is more intense in high-crime areas, leading Trickett et al5 to conclude that high-crime areas are primarily so because of the high rate of repeat victimisation which characterises them. It would be logical to infer from these two sets of findings that Asian areas have high rates of repeat victimisation. However, is this the case? No research to date has focused on the possibility that Asian areas, although high-crime areas, may experience more or less repeat victimisation. Are Asian areas high crime areas because of a high prevalence of crime or a high concentration of crime? Analysis of the 1992 British Crime Survey shows that the Asian population suffer an incidence of domestic burglary almost twice that of the white population (0.088 as compared to 0.045). Is this high incidence of burglary in Asian areas a result of high prevalence or concentration? This article broaches this important question by investigating the Asian population’s experience of repeat domestic burglary in Rochdale.
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The research The main reason for choosing Rochdale for this piece of research is the ethnic breakdown of the area. Rochdale contains a number of areas with a high Asian population, predominantly Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi. The areas with a high Asian population are interspersed throughout Rochdale, in close proximity to predominantly white areas. This is important because it allows us to investigate race differences in the experience of repeat burglary, while avoiding the possibilit
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