ABSTRACT
So far we have dealt with the role of the individuals' family social position, their individual characteristics and the wider community contexts in which their offending and victimisations are embedded. In this chapter we will introduce the concept of lifestyles as an additional and important explanatory factor. We will analyse how lifestyles relate to individual and community characteristics, and to offending and victimisation. We will also look into interaction effects, particularly between lifestyles and other explanatory factors. In the next chapter we will further extend the analysis of the role of lifestyles by bringing in the detailed data on the youths' last-week routines collected in the separate space-time budget study (see Chapter 2).
