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43 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd43 and id is 1 raw text is: \olume 43 Number 1 Pubertal Development and I 2006 Sage Publ0 Whications Physical Victimization in hosted at Adolescence http:/ ofline.sagepub.com Dana L. Haynie The Ohio State University Alex R. Piquero University of Florida Although much research has established a link between pubertal development and adolescent involvement in offending, drug use, and other adverse out- comes, no research has examined whether puberty is associated with experi- ences of violent physical victimization. This is an unfortunate oversight because researchers are only beginning to understand the range of adverse out- comes associated with puberty-and information on this front bears relevance for public health discussions regarding the consequences of pubertal develop- ment. Here, the authors use data from Add Health to examine whether puberty is associated with victimization and whether the effect of puberty on victimiza- tion is moderated by peer context (i.e., the proportion of deviant, opposite-sex, and older friends in the peer social network). In addition, the authors examine whether these associations operate similarly or dissimilarly for male and female adolescents. Findings indicate that among both males and females, puberty is associated with victimization net of a series of controls, though the effect is stronger among males. Analyses also indicate that for boys, puberty has a weaker effect when their friendship network has a higher proportion of girls in it. The effect of puberty on victimization was not moderated by peer context variables among females. Future theoretical and empirical research directions are suggested. Keywords: puberty; victimization; gender; peer networks S ocial scientists have recently begun to pay attention to the role that biol- ogy plays in human behavior generally, and in criminal behavior in par- ticular (see Raine et al. 1997). One biological factor that has been a concerted focus among social scientists is puberty. Because puberty generally, and early puberty in particular, tends to place adolescents in situations that demand social cognitive expertise (e.g., better decision making) or emotion regulation (e.g., regulating sexual feelings), it is of specific interest to under- 3

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