The overlap between online/offline offending and victimization: Results from the US Internet-based ISRD4 sample

• In Event: ISRD Panel 4: Focus on Victimisation

Abstract

Researchers have increasingly come to recognize the significance of the overlap between victimization and offending, (e.g. Berg and Mulford 2020), and the significant relation between online and offline behavior (e.g. Gorzig 2016; Rokven et al., 2018). However, until recently there was a paucity of data to explore the co-occurrence between offline/online (a) offending and (b) victimization. The International Self-Report Delinquency study (ISRD4) survey instrument fills this gap by including a range of items that allow the study of the offending/victimization overlap, both for online and offline offending and victimization. For this presentation, we use the results of the internet-based sample of 15-to-18 year olds (n = 4,092), collected as part of the ISRD4 data collection in the US to explore the co-occurrence between (a) online and (b) offline offending/victimization. In addition to specific measures of offending and victimization (online/offline), we include results related to the sample self-reported routine use of online sources. The primary purpose of the paper is descriptive, as a first step to develop an analytic strategy to test theoretically-derived hypotheses concerning factors related to online and offline offending and victimization, and concerning related to the overlap between offline/online offending/victimization.

Authors

• Michael Gottfredson, University of California, Irvine

• Mikaela Sky Nielsen, University of California, Irvine

• Ineke Haen Marshall, Northeastern University