TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, adolescent lifestyles, and violent victimization
T2 - Implications for routine activity theory
AU - Henson, Billy
AU - Wilcox, Pamela
AU - Reyns, Bradford W.
AU - Cullen, Francis T.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was sponsored, in part, by grant DA-11317 (Richard R. Clayton, PI) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The authors thank Richard R. Clayton, Graham C. Ousey, and Staci Roberts for their contributions to the TEENS Project, which provides the data analyzed here.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Using data from 541 high school students, we examine the associations between structured and unstructured routine activities and adolescent violent victimization in light of gender's influence. In particular, we focused on whether such activity-victimization relationships explained any effect of gender or, in contrast, were perhaps contingent upon gender. The results showed that gender's effect on both minor and serious victimization was substantially mediated by one measured lifestyle, in particular the delinquent lifestyle. In addition, there was only modest evidence of gender moderating the effects of certain lifestyles on victimization; the effects of most activities were consistent across male and female subjects. Implications of our findings for a contemporary age-graded and gendered routine activity theory are discussed.
AB - Using data from 541 high school students, we examine the associations between structured and unstructured routine activities and adolescent violent victimization in light of gender's influence. In particular, we focused on whether such activity-victimization relationships explained any effect of gender or, in contrast, were perhaps contingent upon gender. The results showed that gender's effect on both minor and serious victimization was substantially mediated by one measured lifestyle, in particular the delinquent lifestyle. In addition, there was only modest evidence of gender moderating the effects of certain lifestyles on victimization; the effects of most activities were consistent across male and female subjects. Implications of our findings for a contemporary age-graded and gendered routine activity theory are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/15564886.2010.509651
DO - 10.1080/15564886.2010.509651
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956949585
SN - 1556-4886
VL - 5
SP - 303
EP - 328
JO - Victims and Offenders
JF - Victims and Offenders
IS - 4
ER -