Studies examining citizenship, ethnicity, and victimization risk have offered mixed findings. Despite this, works have largely focused upon direct-contact victimization, and do not offer insights into how this risk may vary across these dimensions for other crimes not characterized by direct contact, such as identity theft. This lack of understanding undermines abilities to tailor policies to effectively support vulnerable persons, and may potentially elevate risk of this costly crime among marginalized groups. Given this, the study aims to examine the associations between citizenship status, ethnicity and identity theft risk. Using a sample from the 2018 National Crime Victimization Survey’s Identity Theft Supplement (n = 71,984), logistic regression analyses examined the odds of identity theft. Lacking citizenship was associated with decreased odds of identity theft victimization, as was Hispanic ethnicity. However, Hispanic noncitizens faced higher relative risk than either noncitizens or Hispanic persons individually. Noncitizens’ decreased relative risk may stem from avoidance behaviors which reduce their suitability or exposure through a lifestyle-routine activities perspective. Hispanic noncitizens’ increased risk relative to others may stem from their doubly marginalized status. Future work is needed considering avoidance behaviors and citizenship status, to more clearly understand how these factors influence relative risk of victimization.

针对公民身份、种族和受害风险的研究得出了不同的结果。尽管如此，研究工作主要集中在直接接触受害上，并且没有深入了解这种风险在这些维度上如何变化，以了解其他不以直接接触为特征的犯罪（例如身份盗窃）。这种缺乏了解削弱了制定政策以有效支持弱势群体的能力，并可能增加边缘群体中这种代价高昂的犯罪的风险。鉴于此，该研究旨在探讨公民身份、种族和身份盗窃风险之间的关联。使用 2018 年国家犯罪受害调查的身份盗窃补充样本 ( n  = 71,984) 中的样本，逻辑回归分析检查了身份盗窃的可能性。缺乏公民身份与身份盗窃受害几率降低有关，西班牙裔也是如此。然而，西班牙裔非公民比非公民或西班牙裔个人面临更高的相对风险。非公民相对风险的降低可能源于回避行为，这些行为从生活方式-日常活动的角度降低了他们的适宜性或暴露程度。西班牙裔非公民相对于其他人的风险增加可能源于他们的双重边缘化地位。未来的工作需要考虑回避行为和公民身份，以更清楚地了解这些因素如何影响受害的相对风险。