Routine Activities, Stress and Social Support: Explaining Violence Victimization Among Youth in Cross-National Context

• In Event: Adolescent Victimization and Offending: Empirical and Theoretical Insights from the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) project

Abstract

This paper deploys the ISRD3 (2012-2019)survey to develop and test an explanation of youth victimization in cross-national context. At the micro-level, we build and test an explanation that draws from routine activities, strain and social support theories to explain victimization risk among about 72,552 survey responses from youths between the ages of 12 and 16 across 33 countries. At the macro-level, we develop and test an explanation of how national-level social support and inequality set the stage for the micro-level processes that we observe. We examine the unique and combined influence of national-level characteristics and individual-level processes on youths' risk of violent victimization, observing both the direct effects as well as moderated effects of our core constructs.

Authors

• Karen Heimer, University of Iowa

• Ineke Haen Marshall, Northeastern University

• Emilie Falguires, Northeastern University