As criminologists explore the link between bullying victimization and delinquency, they must grapple with measurement issues related to the operationalization of in-school bullying and cyberbullying. Accurately identifying victims has implications for school safety and implementation of policies to reduce the consequences of bullying. Using a longitudinal sample of over 2,000 students, we find youth who do not self-identify as victims of bullying but report peer victimization are likely to experience a number of criminogenic risk factors, and these “mismatched” victims are more likely than non-victims to engage in delinquency. While the observed consequences of victimization are similar across bullied and mismatched youth, we find that certain criminogenic risk factors are associated with failure to self-identify one’s victimization as bullying.

在犯罪学家探索欺凌行为受害与犯罪之间的联系时，他们必须努力应对与学校欺凌和网络欺凌的实施有关的衡量问题。准确识别受害者对学校安全和减少欺凌后果的政策的实施都有影响。使用超过2,000名学生的纵向样本，我们发现没有自我认同为欺凌受害者但报告同伴受害的年轻人很可能会遇到许多致犯罪的危险因素，而这些“失配”的受害者比非受害人更有可能从事违法行为。虽然在受欺凌和不匹配的年轻人中观察到的受害后果是相似的，但我们发现某些致犯罪的危险因素与无法将自己的受害身份识别为欺凌有关。