title: Role Differentiation in an Adolescent Victim-Offender Typology: Results From Medellin, Colombia.
abstract: The present study evaluates adolescent victimization and offending using cross-sectional survey data from 1,475 adolescents living in a disadvantaged Comuna in Medellin, Colombia, while paying particular attention to the ways in which both victimization and violent offending are operationalized. We find that 37% of respondents experienced no lifetime victimization, while 60% experienced vicarious, and 4% personal victimization. When restricting violent offending to behavior involving a weapon, the majority of offenders (81%) also experienced victimization while only 33% of victims were also weapons offenders. Our final analysis seeks to identify theoretical conditions which differentiate roles in a victim-offender typology, a result we determine varies significantly depending on how "violent offending" is measured.
authors.affiliation: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA holli.drummond@wku.edu.
authors.forename: Holli
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Drummond
authors.affiliation: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dizgun
authors.affiliation: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Keeling
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003105:Colombia; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D000069581:Exposure to Violence / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: adolescent victimization; international; risky time-use; victim-offender typology; violent delinquency