The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.
Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 Dec;36(23-24):NP13439-NP13462. doi: 10.1177/0886260519898427. Epub 2020 Feb 26.
Historically, criminologists have examined offending and victimization in the community as separate outcomes. Recently, however, researchers have begun to explore the shared commonalities of being an offender and a victim. The victim-offender overlap literature shows that victimization and offending are not different and distinct outcomes, but rather these outcomes share numerous risk factors. A close examination of the victim-offender overlap has not been done within the prison literature. Thus, it remains unclear whether there are commonalities among prisoners who offend while incarcerated and those who experience victimization. The focus of the current study is to (a) identify the proportion of the prisoners who were victims-only, offenders-only, victim-offenders, or neither victim nor offender and (b) identify the factors that predict membership into the four categories of the overlap. The current study used the 2004 with multinomial logistic regression analyses to examine which factors are associated with group membership into the victim-only, offender-only, or victim-offender groups in prison. Findings show that although the victim-offender overlap exists among prisoners, the majority of prisoners were neither a victim nor an offender. Victim-offenders and victims-only comprise only a small proportion of the sample. Findings also indicate that there are few unique factors across the groups. Results of the study have implications policy and future research.
从历史上看，犯罪学家将社区中的犯罪和受害视为两个独立的结果进行研究。然而，最近，研究人员开始探索犯罪者和受害者之间的共同特征。受害者-犯罪者重叠文献表明，受害和犯罪并不是不同的、独特的结果，而是这些结果有许多共同的风险因素。在监狱文献中，还没有对受害者-犯罪者重叠进行深入研究。因此，尚不清楚在服刑期间犯罪的囚犯和受害的囚犯之间是否存在共同之处。本研究的重点是：(a) 确定仅为受害者、仅为犯罪者、既是受害者又是犯罪者或既非受害者也非犯罪者的囚犯比例；(b) 确定预测重叠四个类别成员身份的因素。本研究使用 2004 年全国囚犯调查数据，采用多项逻辑回归分析来检验哪些因素与监狱中仅为受害者、仅为犯罪者或既是受害者又是犯罪者群体成员身份有关。研究结果表明，尽管囚犯之间存在受害者-犯罪者重叠，但大多数囚犯既非受害者也非犯罪者。既是受害者又是犯罪者和仅为受害者的人数仅占样本的一小部分。研究结果还表明，各组之间几乎没有独特的因素。研究结果对政策和未来研究具有重要意义。
