This article examines the relationship between the experience of victimization and feelings of unsafety in 21 European countries. Using multilevel regression, it investigates how different institutional factors moderate the effects of victimization on feelings of unsafety. The empirical analyses are based on data from three rounds of the European Social Survey (6 to 8). Theoretically, the article combines a traditional victimological approach, which suggests that victims of crime feel more unsafe than non-victims owing to an increased sense of vulnerability and an institutional perspective in which certain institutional conditions are seen as moderating the relationship between victimization and feelings of unsafety. Using a multilevel framework, results show that, in countries with a high level of spending on social protection, low inequality and high levels of trust in the criminal justice system, the negative effects of being victimized on feelings of unsafety are smaller. Our results further show that the connection between victimization and feelings of unsafety is much weaker in the Nordic welfare regimes than in all other welfare regimes. The article concludes that the Nordic welfare state and criminal justice system seem to be relatively effective in limiting victims’ feelings of unsafety and thus reducing the overall sense of unsafety in society

本文研究了21个欧洲国家的受害经历和不安全感之间的关系。使用多级回归，它研究了不同的制度因素如何缓解受害对不安全感的影响。实证分析基于三轮欧洲社会调查（6至8）的数据。从理论上讲，该文章结合了传统的受害者学方法，这表明犯罪受害者比非受害者更不安全，原因是其脆弱性增强，并且从制度角度考虑某些制度条件可以减轻受害者与受害者之间的关系。不安全。使用多层次的框架，结果表明，在社会保护支出高的国家，刑事司法系统中的不平等程度低，信任度高，受害对不安全感的负面影响较小。我们的结果进一步表明，北欧福利制度中的受害与不安全感之间的联系比所有其他福利制度中的弱得多。文章得出的结论是，北欧福利国家和刑事司法制度似乎在限制受害者的不安全感方面相对有效，从而降低了社会的整体不安全感