| Institution: | *Vani K. Borooah, University of Ulster, and Carlos A. Carcach, Australian Institute of Criminology. Research for this paper was carried out while the first author was Visiting Research Fellow, and the second author was Research Officer, at the Queensland Government Statistician's Office (GSO), Australia. Both authors are grateful to the CSO for making available data from the 1991 Queensland Crime Victim Survey and to David Smith and Ranjit De Mel for facilitating the work. Thanks are due to two anonymous referees, and the Editor of the Journal for comments that have substantially improved the paper. Needless to say the usual disclaimer applies. |
