02c Victim Perpetrator Characteristics

VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR CHARACTERISTICS

The risk of victimisation is not homogenous.  There are marked variations by age group, gender, marital status, residential stability, socio-economic and employment status and time of day/night. These risk factors are inter-related. Briefly, being young, male, single, unemployed or under-employed, with high residential mobility and regularly participating in recreational activities in the evenings or at night (particularly involving alcohol etc consumption) results in increased risk of victimization – and in offending.  That is, perpetrators and victims share many characteristics. 

Victim characteristics

Perpetrator characteristics

Reporting or non-reporting of crimes to police