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13 Youth Violence & Juv. Just. 3 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/yvja13 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Youth Violence and juvenile justice 2015, Vol. 13(1) 3-17 @ The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10. 1177/1541204014521250 yvi.sagepub.corn Among Bullying Victims OSAGE Whitney DeCamp' and Brian Newby2 Abstract Although much research has explored bullies and bullying victims, little has been done to explore the long-term effects on those who have been bullied. Separately, a growing body of evidence suggests that there is a victim-offender overlap, in which many victims are or become offenders themselves. Taken together, this suggests that bullying victims may themselves be at elevated risk of involvement in deviance or crime. The present study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth I997 to explore this issue, utilizing propensity score matching to control for the shared predictors of offending and victimization. Given that bullying experiences can vary dramatically by gender, gender-specific analyses are performed. Results indicate that controlling for the propensity to be bullied reduces, but does not eliminate, the effect on later criminality. Keywords bullying, youth victimization, victim-offender overlap, NLSY97, propensity score matching Social scientific research on bullying has historically focused on the fact that people, particularly children and adolescents, bully others or are bullied themselves as well as the frequency and style with which these incidences occur. These studies have been conducted in many countries over the past several decades (e.g., Campbell, 1986; Glover, Gough, Johnson, & Cartwright, 2000; Graham & Bowling, 1995; Whitney & Smith, 1993). These studies, and others like them, address the use and frequency of violence in schools, in the streets, and among peer groups. Their use of myriad meth- odological approaches has made comparisons difficult and has shown that methodological approaches in this area of research vary widely. Additionally, studies on bullying often overlook the long-term effects of bullying on the victims, choosing instead to focus on the bullies alone. The cur- rent study focuses on the underexplored area of these long-term effects on the life course of victims, using propensity score matching (PSM) to analyze self-reported data from American youth to Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Ml, USA 2 Department of Sociology & Criminal justice, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Corresponding Author: Whitney DeCamp, Department of Sociology, Western Michigan University, 1903 Western Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA. Email: whitney.gunter@wmich.edu

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