Abstract

This study pursues two important goals: 1) assessment of the offender-victim overlap in non-Western cultural contexts and 2) examination of complex moderating influences and mediating factors that help explain the relationship between offending and victimization. Interview data from 700 Ukrainian and 735 Russian adults are used to assess main and interactive effects of theoretical predictors on violent and property offending. Findings reveal a moderate relationship between victimization and offending partially explained by association with deviant peers, self-control, and angry emotions. Moreover, association with deviant peers, depression, and anger appear to condition the relationship. Analyses support and clarify the victim-offender overlap, suggesting it is a universal phenomenon crossing national contexts and that the likelihood of a crime victim becoming an offender is influenced by individual traits, peer relationships, and contemporaneous emotional affect shaping behavioral responses to criminal victimization.

摘要

本研究追求两个重要目标：1) 评估非西方文化背景下的犯罪者与受害者的重叠；2) 检查有助于解释犯罪与受害之间关系的复杂调节影响和中介因素。来自 700 名乌克兰人和 735 名俄罗斯成年人的访谈数据用于评估理论预测因素对暴力和财产犯罪的主要和交互影响。调查结果揭示了受害和冒犯之间的适度关系，部分原因是与越轨的同龄人、自我控制和愤怒情绪的关联。此外，与不正常的同龄人交往、抑郁和愤怒似乎会调节这种关系。分析支持并澄清受害者与犯罪者的重叠，