Repeat Victimization: Lessons for Implementing Problem-Oriented Policing

The paper discusses some of the difficulties encountered in attempting to introduce ideas derived from research on repeat victimization to the police services of the United Kingdom. Repeat victimization is the phenomenon in which particular individuals or other targets are repeatedly attacked or subjected to other forms of victimization, including the loss of property. It is argued that repeat victimization is a good example of the kind of problem-solving envisaged by Goldstein and discussed in his original conception of problem-oriented policing.