ABSTRACT
Rob Mawby, Elaine Barclay, and Carol Jones deal with the issue of tourism and victimization. Criminologists have overlooked tourism as a topic worthy of investigation partly because existing sources of data do not allow tourists to be identi ed as victims. Nevertheless, researching the relationship between tourism and victimization is important because it can inform practitioners in the tourism industry and contribute to theory in victimology. ey review levels of risk identi ed in victimology and apply these to tourist victims, followed by a look at explanations of these levels of risk in relation to tourist victims. ey also present four case studies to illustrate how the “average tourist” can be understood and how risk levels can be explored for identi able groups of tourists. Overall, they aim not only to review the literature but also to introduce criminologists to a fertile area for research that has received so little attention.
