Defining repeat victimisation

Repeat victimisation occurs when the same person or place suffers from more than one incident over a specified period of time.

(Home Office definition - see AH379 Wise After the Event: Tackling Repeat Victimisation: A Report by the National Board for Crime Prevention (1994) Home Office, http://l01hc002/prgpubs.htm)

While this broad definition may initially seem too broad to be helpful, in practice it allows for local analysis and definition of repeat victimisation problems. This toolkit is concerned with showing how to apply an understanding of repeat victimisation to different crime problems, in different environments.