Individual and contextual determinants of victimisation in Brazilian urban centres: : A multilevel approach

• Autores: Klebson Moura, Raul Silveira Neto
• Localización: Urban Studies, ISSN-e 1360-063X, Vol. 53, Nº. 8, 2016, págs. 1559-1573
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article analyses the influence of both contextual and individual urban characteristics on violence victimisation in Brazilian cities. A multilevel approach is used to capture the effects of the urban contextual variables with respect to the probability of becoming a robbery victim in Brazilian urban centres. The results demonstrate that factors associated with social context, such as proportions of cities’ recent migrants or female-headed households, affect victimisation, as do individual characteristics. Furthermore, based on an analysis of the intra-class correlation coefficients, the context produces a non-negligible amount of variability.