I think this gets down to the media and popular culture and what people think crime is. The statistics tell us that the people who are most likely to be fearful of being victims of violent crime are the elderly people. The truth is, they're the least likely people to actually be victims of violent crime. The least likely to be fearful are kids aged 15 to 24. They're actually the most likely to be victims of violent crime. Why is that? It's because they're out at night. And our parents or grandparents are at home and they're watching TV and watching the crime shows. So people have a misperception of what is actually happening in our communities.
Who's the most likely to be a victim? It's someone aged 15 to 24, unemployed or a student, who goes out in the evenings. That also tends to be who is most likely to be an offender as well, so there are some interesting discussions that can take place around that. It's a difficult discussion to have with people, to really talk honestly about what crime is and what it looks like. To do that, I think if we're going to talk about solutions and what does the public think, they actually have to have reasonable information about what crime is.
We can look at, for example, multiple victimization. A third of sexual assault victims are at risk of being sexually assaulted again in that same year. We have evidence that people who have had their homes broken into are more likely to have their homes broken into again within that first year. Some numbers from the States actually talk about people having their homes broken into within weeks. That's one specific area we could look at and say this person was a victim of this, so let's give them some information that might help prevent them from being a victim of this crime again.