International Journal on Criminology Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2015 | Page 104

International Journal on Criminology
of their accommodation and their neighborhood (tables 1 and 2). Thanks to this
categorization, we are able to make an ex post estimate of the share of the victims
within each of the groups while also verifying the significance of the differences in
rates between the groups identified.
Figure 4: Types of households, and proportions and rates of victimhood
Source: “Cadre de Vie et Sécurité” survey, 2007–2014, Insee-ONDRP, authors’ calculations
Field: ordinary households, mainland France, rate of victimhood over two years
The four groups of households identified on the basis of sociodemographic
variables, rates of victimhood ranged from 4.4% to 5.3% (with an average rate of 4.8%)
(figure 4). Within group H1, it is estimated that 5.3% of households reported themselves
as victims. This is the highest rate among all of the four groups of households broken
down by sociodemographic type. Over the same period, 4.4% of households in the H2
group reported having been victims of this type of offense. This was the lowest rate
among all of the categories. Nevertheless, it is not significantly different from the rate
for H4, in which 4.5% of respondents reported having been victims of burglary during
the surveys conducted between 2007 and 2014. Among the households in group H3,
4.8% reported having been victims of the offense we are concerned with in this study.
The different rates of victimhood for these categories reveal that the factors of
income and more broadly of belonging to a higher “social class” (higher-studies degree
and high socio-professional category) are elements that are positively associated with
the rate of victimhood. Conversely, households in precarious situations less frequently
report having been victims of burglary than the other groups.
Based on accommodation characteristics, the classification has identified
four groups of households. Among households in group A1, it is estimated that 4.2%
reported having been victims of a burglary during the year preceding the survey. This
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