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Childhood risk factors for adolescent victimization: A discordant twin design
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, United States.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4513-1501
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King’s College London, UK.
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2016 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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In this study we considered the effect of childhood risk factors on adolescent victimization, measured at 18 years of age. We analyzed 1000 twipairs born 1994–1996 who were members of the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Study, a prospective cohort study from the United Kingdom. We considered risk factors from two developmental periods (early childhood and early adolescence) and across multiple domains (individual, family, neighborhood): IQ, under controlled temperament, parent antisocial behavior, severe childhood victimization from ages 5 to 12, neighborhood socioeconomic, and neighborhood social cohesion. These childhood and early adolescence risk factors were tied to adolescent victimization. Many of these risk factors, however, are known risk factors for criminal behavior. Additionally, criminal behavior and victimization have been shown to be correlated in past research and were correlated the present sample of 18 year-olds (r = .40). We thus reanalyzed the relationship between the risk factors and victimization while controlling for adolescent offending. We found that the effect size for many of the childhood risk factors for victimization decreased and some became non-significant, suggesting that the risk factors described adolescents who were both victims and perpetrators. However, we found that one of the most robust predictors of adolescent victimization was childhood victimization, implying a continuity in victimization risk over the life-course. This presentation will include a comparison for twins discordant for severe childhood victimization.

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2016.
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-113889OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-113889DiVA, id: diva2:1860989
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The Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-16, 2016
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