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The Developmental Nature of the Victim-Offender Overlap

Beckley, Amber L. (author)
Stockholms universitet,Sociologiska institutionen,Duke University, USA
Caspi, Avshalom (author)
Arseneault, Louise (author)
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Barnes, J. C. (author)
Fisher, Helen L. (author)
Harrington, Honalee (author)
Houts, Renate (author)
Morgan, Nick (author)
Odgers, Candice L. (author)
Wertz, Jasmin (author)
Moffitt, Terrie E. (author)
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2017-10-09
2018
English.
In: Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2199-4641 .- 2199-465X. ; 4:1, s. 24-49
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  • Purpose It is well-established that victims and offenders are often the same people, a phenomenon known as the victim-offender overlap, but the developmental nature of this overlap remains uncertain. In this study, we drew from a developmental theoretical framework to test effects of genetics, individual characteristics, and routine-activity-based risks. Drawing from developmental literature, we additionally tested the effect of an accumulation of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Methods Data came from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Study, a representative UK birth cohort of 2232 twins born in 1994-1995 and followed to age 18 (with 93% retention). Crime victimization and offending were assessed through self-reports at age 18 (but findings replicated using crime records). We used the classical twin study method to decompose variance in the victim-offender overlap into genetic and environmental components. We used logistic regression to test the effects of childhood risk factors. Results In contrast to past twin studies, we found that environment (as well as genes) contributed to the victim-offender overlap. Our logistic regression results showed that childhood low self-control and childhood antisocial behavior nearly doubled the odds of becoming a victim-offender, compared to a victim-only or an offender-only. Each additional ACE increased the odds of becoming a victim-offender, compared to a victim-only or an offender-only, by approximately 12%, pointing to the importance of cumulative childhood adversity. Conclusions This study showed that the victim-offender overlap is, at least partially, developmental in nature and predictable from personal childhood characteristics and an accumulation of many adverse childhood experiences.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Juridik (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Law (hsv//eng)
SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

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Victim-offender overlap
Developmental criminology
Adverse childhood experiences
Low selfcontrol

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