RepVict {vcd}R Documentation

Repeat Victimization

Description

Data from Reiss (1980) given by Fienberg (1980) about instances of repeat victimization for households in the U.S. National Crime Survey.

Usage

data(RepVict)

Format

A 2-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating victimization. The variables and their levels are as follows:

No Name Levels
1 First Victimization Rape, Assault, Robbery, Pickpocket, Personal Larcency, Burglary, Household Larcency, Auto Theft
2 Second Victimization Rape, Assault, Robbery, Pickpocket, Personal Larcency, Burglary, Household Larcency, Auto Theft

Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, p. 113.

References

S. E. Fienberg (1980), The Analysis of Cross-Classified Catgegorical Data, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2nd edition.

A. J. J. Reiss (1980), Victim proneness by type of crime in repeat victimization. In S. E. Fienberg & A. J. J. Reiss (eds.), Indicators of Crime and Criminal Justice. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data(RepVict)

mosaicplot(RepVict[-c(4,7),-c(4,7)], shade = TRUE, main = "Repeat Victimization Data")

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