Correlates of Repeat Victimization and Sex Differences in South Korean Youth

Abstract

Interest in the correlates of victimization has significantly increased in criminology, while focusing on a few criminological theories, risky lifestyles/routine activities, and self-control. This study is to explore the applicability of five criminological theories, including social control theory, collective efficacy, and strain theories as well as risky lifestyles/routine activities and self-control to explain the correlates of repeat victimization. The current study also explores sex differences/similarities of Korean youth in the correlates of repeat victimization. Current study analyzes data from two waves of Korean Youth Panel Survey by using logistic regression. Results show that risky lifestyle/routine activities, social control, and general strain variables better explained the chance of repeat victimization than other theories (i.e., self-control and collective efficacy). In addition, this study suggests future study to focus on peer-related issues for girls' repeat victimization and by addressing family-related issues for boys' repeat victimization.

Assessment of a Multidimensional School Collective Efficacy Scale to Prevent Student Bullying: Examining Dimensionality and Measurement Invariance

“…Regarding gender differences, results suggest that mean scores for girls were higher than for boys in perception of cohesion in school, but not in students' social control or teachers' social control. These results are consistent with other recent research (Barchia & Bussey, 2011;Cho, 2017;Lee & Jo, 2017), and thus provide validity to these scales. With regard to educational level differences, we found the mean scores for high school students to be higher than secondary students on perceptions of students' social control but not on cohesion or teachers' social control.…”

“…than boys throughout schooling (Barchia & Bussey, 2011;Cho, 2017;Lee & Jo, 2017). Nonetheless, research on school collective efficacy has produced limited evidence on age differences, with a single study found by the authors reporting that secondary students perceive a higher school collective efficacy than high school students (Barchia & Bussey, 2011).…”

Parental Behavioral Control and Bullying and Victimization of Rural Adolescents in China: The Roles of Deviant Peer Affiliation and Gender

“…A meta-analysis study has concluded that boys in adolescence were more likely to become bullying victims than girls [ 49 ]. Research on Korean adolescents also found that girls’ bullying victimization was highly correlated with deviant peer interaction than boys’ [ 50 ]. Although it could be inferred that gender may be a moderator between deviant peer affiliation and bullying victimization, there was still insufficient evidence to support the view on how it works.…”