The Victim-Offender Overlap: One Class of Crime Victim Rarely Seeks or Receives Available Services

          WASHINGTON – The Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice today published an article examining victim-offender overlap, a split existence that occurs when the same individual is both a victim of violent crime and a violent offender. Past research has mainly focused on the influences and effects on the victim-offender, but recent research sponsored by NIJ has found that the inability of victim-offenders to connect with victim support services can have profound consequences for victims and communities as well.

            The research described in this article was funded by NIJ through a grant awarded to Temple University. This article is based on the grantee final report “The Victim-Offender Overlap: Examining Police and Service System Networks of Response among Violent Street Conflicts”, by C. Roman, C. Harding, H. Klein, L. Hamilton, and J. Koehnlein.        

TITLE:	The Victim-Offender Overlap: One Class of Crime Victim Rarely Seeks or Receives Available Services
AUTHOR:	National Institute of Justice
WHERE:	https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/victim-offender-overlap-one-class-crime-victim-rarely-seeks-or-receives-available