Testing the Situational Explanation of Victimization among Adolescents

被引:37
作者
Averdijk, Margit [1 ]
Bernasco, Wim [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol Zurich ETH, Dept Sociol, Criminol Res Unit, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Netherlands Inst Study Crime & Law Enforcement NS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Dept Spatial Econ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
关键词
victimization; routine activity theory; criminological theory; juvenile delinquency; DEVIANT LIFE-STYLES; VIOLENT VICTIMIZATION; LOGISTIC-REGRESSION; GANG MEMBERSHIP; ROUTINE ACTIVITIES; DATING VIOLENCE; CRIME; RISK; LIKELIHOOD; LINK;
D O I
10.1177/0022427814546197
中图分类号
DF [法律]; D9 [法律];
学科分类号
0301 ;
摘要
Objectives: This study aimed to test situational theories of victimization by answering three research questions, namely to what extent victims are actually victimized while being exposed to risky situations, whether the relation between victimization and situational elements is causal, and which elements of a situation are risky. We distinguished the type of activity, the company that individuals keep, the place of the activity, and the time of the activity. Methods: Data were collected among adolescents in The Hague, the Netherlands, using space-time budgets. These provided detailed information on situational elements for each hour across a period of four days. Multivariate fixed effects logit analyses were used to ensure that the results were not due to stable differences between individuals. Results: A total of 55 individuals reported 63 incidents of victimization. Results confirmed most hypotheses. Especially, the relation between delinquency and victimization was extraordinarily strong. Alcohol consumption, presence of peers, absence of authority figures, and being in a public place also increased the risk of victimization. Conclusions: Confirming major victimization theories, victimization was shown to occur during and because of exposure to risky situations. The hypothesized elements of risky situations were shown to have independent effects on victimization.
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页码:151 / 180
页数:30
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