This paper assesses the state of the literature on victimization and its correlates by examining a diverse set of victimization trends and by summarizing the known correlates of victimization exhibited in research conducted at varying levels of analysis. A broad assessment of victimization research is valuable because it can shed light on both the similarities and differences in a wide range of trends and correlates of criminal victimization, thus prompting useful integration of the diverse set of literatures in this field. We also highlight how some individual-level correlates of victimization vary across spatial contexts as well as in their magnitude over time. Our review suggests that further attention to the commonalities in correlates across various types of victimization, and to multilevel and macrohistorical contexts, can help improve the utility of victimization research findings for both theory and practice.

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受害趋势和相关性：宏观和微观影响以及新的研究方向

本文通过研究各种不同的受害趋势并总结了在不同分析水平下进行的研究中已知的受害相关因素，评估了受害及其相关文献的现状。对受害研究的广泛评估是有价值的，因为它可以揭示犯罪受害的各种趋势和相关因素之间的相似性和差异，从而促进该领域各种文献的有用整合。我们还强调了受害的一些个人层面的相关性如何在不同的空间环境中以及随着时间的变化而变化。我们的评论表明，应进一步关注各种类型的受害情况之间以及与多层次和宏观历史背景相关的共性，