Journal article
THE VICTIM-OFFENDER OVERLAP IN CONTEXT: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF NEIGHBORHOOD STREET CULTURE
Criminology (Beverly Hills), Vol.50(2), pp.359-390
05/01/2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00265.x
Abstract
Although numerous studies have found a strong relationship between offending and victimization risk, the etiology of this relationship is not well understood. Largely absent from this research is an explicit focus on neighborhood processes. However, theoretical work found in the subculture of violence literature implies that neighborhood street culture may help to account for the etiology of this phenomenon. Specifically, we should expect the magnitude of the victimoffender overlap to vary closely with neighborhood-based violent conduct norms. This research uses waves 1 and 2 of the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) to test the empirical validity of these notions. Our results show that the victimoffender overlap is not generalizeable across neighborhood contexts; in fact, it is especially strong in neighborhoods where the street culture predominates, whereas it is significantly weaker in areas where this culture is less prominent. These results indicate that neighborhood-level cultural processes help to explain the victimoffender overlap, and they may cause this phenomenon to be context specific.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- THE VICTIM-OFFENDER OVERLAP IN CONTEXT: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF NEIGHBORHOOD STREET CULTURE
- Creators
- Mark T. Berg - Indiana University BloomingtonEric A. Stewart - Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal JusticeChristopher J. Schreck - Department of Criminal Justice Rochester Institute of TechnologyRonald L. Simons - Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Criminology (Beverly Hills), Vol.50(2), pp.359-390
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00265.x
- ISSN
- 0011-1384
- eISSN
- 1745-9125
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984282620902771
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