Citation

Vaske J, Wright JP, Beaver KM. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. 2011; 55(2): 251-267.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0306624X10361583

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Research has shown that offenders, on average, are more likely to be violently victimized than nonoffenders. However, a substantial percentage of offenders are not violently victimized. The current study uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to investigate whether variants of a polymorphism in the dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2) distinguish between offenders who are violently victimized and offenders who are not violently victimized. The results show that offenders who are violently victimized are more likely to carry the DRD2 (A1) risk allele than offenders who have not been violently victimized.