title: Patterns of victimization between and within peer clusters in a high school social network.
abstract: This study presents a descriptive analysis of patterns of violent victimization between and within the various cohesive clusters of peers comprising a sample of more than 500 9th-12th grade students from one high school. Social network analysis techniques provide a visualization of the overall friendship network structure and allow for the examination of variation in victimization across the various peer clusters within the larger network. Social relationships among clusters with varying levels of victimization are also illustrated so as to provide a sense of possible spatial clustering or diffusion of victimization across proximal peer clusters. Additionally, to provide a sense of the sorts of peer clusters that support (or do not support) victimization, characteristics of clusters at both the high and low ends of the victimization scale are discussed. Finally, several of the peer clusters at both the high and low ends of the victimization continuum are "unpacked", allowing examination of within-network individual-level differences in victimization for these select clusters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Justice Administration, University of Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA. kmswar01@louisville.edu
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Swartz
authors.forename: Bradford W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Reyns
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wilcox
authors.forename: Jessica R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Dunham
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology