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lifestyle theory  

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  • In 1978, Michael Hindelang, Michael Gottfredson, and James Garofalo published Victims of Personal Crime: An Empirical Foundation for a Theory of Personal Victimization. In this book, the authors stated that people play a role in their own victimization by engaging in lifestyles and making certain lifestyle choices that make them more accessible to offenders and easier targets for crime. [Source: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Lifestyle Theory]

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