@article{ref1,
title="Self-control, risky lifestyles, and victimization among Chinese adolescents",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2021",
author="Qu, Jia and Wu, Yuning and Chen, Xiaojin",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Violent and property victimization among Chinese adolescents remains a social problem, yet studies that incorporate individual characteristics and situational/contextual factors to explain such victimization remain scarce. Drawing upon survey data collected from a large, representative sample of middle school students from two areas in Guizhou Province, China, we test Schreck's integrated model of victimization, finding that self-control has both direct and indirect influences on violent and property victimization among Chinese adolescents. Delinquent peers play the most significant intermediate role in connecting self-control and adolescent victimization. <br><br>RESULTS reconfirm the importance of both self-control and risky lifestyles/situations in shaping victimization, and identify a victimization pathway that accentuates the key linking mechanism of delinquent peers in the self-control-victimization nexus.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X211027487",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X211027487"
}