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Samband mellan Brottsutsatthet och Individers Egenskaper - En analys baserad på NTU-data

Ma, Louise LU and Astrén, Jenny LU (2024) STAH11 20232
Department of Statistics
Abstract (Swedish)
While the Swedish debate on crime often centers around crime, punishment, and offenders, there is notably less attention dedicated to those who are exposed to crime. This discrepancy is particularly evident in the lack of comprehensive theories explaining who becomes a victim.
This thesis investigates whether a pattern can be identified between what kind of background or exposure of crime and being a victim to a particular type of crime. In this study, logistic regression is used to analyze a data material came from a Swedish Crime Survey conducted by The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention annually.
Out of 14 types of crimes, we studied further to three specific types: robbery, sexual offenses and assault. In conclusion, we... (More)
While the Swedish debate on crime often centers around crime, punishment, and offenders, there is notably less attention dedicated to those who are exposed to crime. This discrepancy is particularly evident in the lack of comprehensive theories explaining who becomes a victim.
This thesis investigates whether a pattern can be identified between what kind of background or exposure of crime and being a victim to a particular type of crime. In this study, logistic regression is used to analyze a data material came from a Swedish Crime Survey conducted by The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention annually.
Out of 14 types of crimes, we studied further to three specific types: robbery, sexual offenses and assault. In conclusion, we were able to find a pattern of crime victimization vary based on different backgroundfactors. It is difficult to make general statement about gender, but younger people or being a single parent with children have a higher risk to be exposed of these crimes, also in correlation between be threaten and all crime models we studied. (Less)
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author
Ma, Louise LU and Astrén, Jenny LU
supervisor
organization
course
STAH11 20232
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Logistic regression, Crime Prevention, Crimes.
language
Swedish
id
9144949
date added to LUP
2024-01-24 12:16:15
date last changed
2024-01-24 12:16:15
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  abstract     = {{While the Swedish debate on crime often centers around crime, punishment, and offenders, there is notably less attention dedicated to those who are exposed to crime. This discrepancy is particularly evident in the lack of comprehensive theories explaining who becomes a victim.
This thesis investigates whether a pattern can be identified between what kind of background or exposure of crime and being a victim to a particular type of crime. In this study, logistic regression is used to analyze a data material came from a Swedish Crime Survey conducted by The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention annually.
Out of 14 types of crimes, we studied further to three specific types: robbery, sexual offenses and assault. In conclusion, we were able to find a pattern of crime victimization vary based on different backgroundfactors. It is difficult to make general statement about gender, but younger people or being a single parent with children have a higher risk to be exposed of these crimes, also in correlation between be threaten and all crime models we studied.}},
  author       = {{Ma, Louise and Astrén, Jenny}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Samband mellan Brottsutsatthet och Individers Egenskaper - En analys baserad på NTU-data}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}