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Juvenile Arrests, 2018

Date Published
June 2020
Agencies
NIJ, OJJDP
Publication Type
Youth-Oriented Material, Statistics, Report (Annual/Periodic)

TECHBeat, October 2018

Date Published
October 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)

Violent Repeat Victimization: Prospects and Challenges for Research and Practice

April 2012

Research tells us that a relatively small fraction of individuals experience a large proportion of violent victimizations. Thus, focusing on reducing repeat victimization might have a large impact on total rates of violence. However, research also tells us that most violent crime victims do not experience more than one incident during a six-month or one-year time period. As a result, special policies to prevent repeat violence may not be cost-effective for most victims.