Adolescent victimization experiences can cause serious distress to victims and have been shown to be international phenomena. While victimization in various forms tends to peak in adolescence, its trajectories vary depending on individual and structural characteristics as well as the type of offending. Using structural choice theory and the ‘risky lifestyles’ perspective as our framework, the present study expanded on prior research by examining adolescent victimization in South Korea and using sophisticated statistical models to examine the unique predictors of ‘immunity’ in addition to victimization. In doing so, we supported previous research indicating that structural choice theory predicts adolescent victimization, but we added to that literature in finding that immunity was also a function of one’s environment as well as individual-level characteristics.

青少年受害经历会给受害者带来严重的痛苦，并已被证明是一种国际现象。虽然各种形式的受害往往在青春期达到顶峰，但其轨迹因个人和结构特征以及犯罪类型而异。使用结构选择理论和“冒险生活方式”视角作为我们的框架，本研究通过检查韩国青少年受害情况并使用复杂的统计模型来检查除受害之外的“免疫”的独特预测因子，扩展了先前的研究。在这样做的过程中，我们支持了先前的研究表明结构选择理论可以预测青少年受害，