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Lifestyle, Self-Control, and School-Based Violent Victimization in Turkey

Deryol, Rustu
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5850-9393
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439308217

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2015, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Criminal Justice.
The present study aims to fill in the gap in the Turkish school-based violent victimization literature by exploring the predictors of general, crime-, and gender-specific violent victimization. Research hypothesis are derived from the framework of lifestyle-routine activities and self-control theories and are tested using data from The National High School Offending and Victimization Survey in Turkey. This survey was created and conducted upon the initiative of Dr. Osman Dolu, teaching and conducting research at the Police Academy in Ankara, Turkey. For this dissertation, the data on school victimization is based on a sub-sample from this national survey which included 1,204 students from 15 Mersin high schools. Binary logistic regression models were estimated using datasets with missing data and datasets with missing values imputed. Results indicate that the propositions of lifestyle-routine activities theory were generally supported. Particularly, self-mutilation (as a measure of delinquent lifestyle) was a robust predictor of general violent victimization and crime-specific victimization. Similarly, friends’ delinquency, measured with gang membership and the number of gang friends, also impacted victimization in several models. Moreover, school-related opportunity measures were also often significant. In particular, school responsiveness to student misconduct, school control of weapons, and unsupervised areas significantly estimated school-based victimization in a number of models. However, gender-specific analyses supported the notion of “gendered opportunity” – that the predictors of opportunity for victimization vary somewhat across males and females. Findings of this study also support the results of much U.S.-based empirical literature about the effect of low self-control on school-based violent victimization in that it was a significant predictor of victimization in many models, though its effect was mediated and/or moderated in a number of instances. Also, its effect was somewhat gendered. Low self-control exerted a significant effect on females, and this effect was not mediated by opportunity measures across all datasets. For males, it was significant only using a dataset with imputed values, and this effect was mediated by opportunity measures. Overall, an important methodological implication is that future empirical studies that used survey data should employ multiple imputation methods in their analyses, as support for theory is shown to be contingent on how missing cases are handled. Implications of the findings for theory and practice within multilevel school-based crime prevention framework along with the limitations of the study are discussed in separate sections.
Pamela Wilcox, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Dolu Osman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Francis Cullen, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Wooldredge, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
148 p.
Criminology
multiple imputation; school-based victimization; mediation; moderation; gender-specific opportunity; crime-specific opportunity

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  • Deryol, R. (2015). Lifestyle, Self-Control, and School-Based Violent Victimization in Turkey [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439308217

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Deryol, Rustu. Lifestyle, Self-Control, and School-Based Violent Victimization in Turkey. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439308217.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Deryol, Rustu. "Lifestyle, Self-Control, and School-Based Violent Victimization in Turkey." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439308217

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