Exposure to and Consequences of Victimization Across the Life Course

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Concentrated in adolescence, experiences of victimization are developmentally disruptive, with life-altering emotional and behavioral consequences. Youth victimization is a risk factor for depressive symptoms, anger and aggression, fatalism, and substance abuse. Victimized youth are at risk of subsequent victimization and becoming perpetrators themselves. Indeed, the victim-offender overlap is among the most consistently-observed associations in criminology. Both experiencing and witnessing violence have long-term, harmful consequences. While there is wealth of scholarship applying the life course perspective to offending, much less research has focused this lens on victimization. The papers in this panel interrogate variations in exposure to and the consequences of victimization from a life course angle. Panelists will discuss work examining long-term academic consequences of victimization, social support as a potential buffer disrupting the victim-offender overlap, and how brain structure and functioning may mediate the consequences of direct and indirect victimization.

Sub Unit

• Area V. Victimization / 37. Consequences of Victimization

Individual Presentations

• Pathways from Victimization to Suspension in Adolescence - Alyssa Talaugon, Florida State University; Jillian Turanovic, University of Colorado Boulder; Sonja Siennick, Florida State University

• Exposure to Violence and Offending Over the Life Course: The Role of Social Support - Kristin Lloyd, Clemson University

• Dual Systems Imbalance as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Exposure to Violence and Violent Offending Risk: Delineating Direct Victimization and Witnessed Violence - Thomas Wojciechowski, Michigan State University

Chair

• Alyssa Talaugon, Florida State University

Organized by a Division or external group?

Developmental and Life Course Criminology