PUBLICATIONS
MARGIT AVERDIJK
Monographs
Averdijk, M. (2010). Individuals’ Victimization Patterns over Time (Doctoral dissertation).
VU University, Amsterdam.
Published reports and edited special issues
Malti, T., & Averdijk, M. (Eds.) (2017). Severe youth violence: Causes, early detection, and
intervention. Guest-edited special issue, Child Development, 88(1), 5-82. Impact Factor: 3.791.
Averdijk, M., Eisner, M., Luciano, E., Valdebenito, S., & Obsuth, I. (2014). Wirksame
Gewaltprävention. Eine Übersicht zum internationalen Wissenstand [Effective violence
prevention. An overview of the international knowledge base]. Berne: Ministry of Social
Insurances.
Averdijk, M., Billaud, C., Greber, F., Miko Iso, I., Kranich, C., Wechlin, A., and Weingartner,
M. (2013). Recommendations for reducing sexual violence among teenagers. A specialist
report. Zurich, Switzerland: UBS Optimus Foundation.
Averdijk, M., Mueller-Johnson, K , & Eisner, M. (2012). Sexual victimization of children and
adolescents in Switzerland. Zurich, Switzerland: UBS Optimus Foundation.
Peer-reviewed journals
Malti, T., & Averdijk, M. (2017). Severe youth violence: Developmental perspectives. Child
Development, 88(1), 5-15. Impact Factor: 3.791.
Averdijk, M., Van Gelder, J. L., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2016). Violence begets violence,
but how? A decision making perspective on the victim-offender overlap. Criminology, 54(2),
282-306. Impact Factor: 4.778.
Averdijk, M., Malti, T., Eisner, M., Farrington, D. P., & Ribeaud, D. (2016). A vicious cycle
of peer victimization? Problem behavior mediates stability in peer victimization over time.
Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2, 162-181.
Averdijk, M., Zirk-Sadowski, J., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M., (2016). Long-term effects of two
childhood psychosocial interventions on adolescent delinquency, substance use, and anti-social
behavior: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 12(1),
21-47. Impact Factor: 2.229.
Malti, T., Averdijk, M., Zuffianò, A., Betts, L., Rotenberg, K., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M.P.
(2015). Children’s trust and the development of prosocial behavior. International Journal of
Behavioral Development, 40(3), 262-270. Impact Factor: 1.610.
1
Van Gelder, J. L., Averdijk, M., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2015). Unpacking the victimoffender overlap: Beyond subcultural theory and risky lifestyles. Journal of Quantitative
Criminology, 31(4), 653-675. Impact Factor: 2.226.
Averdijk, M., & Bernasco, W. (2015). Testing the situational explanation of victimization
among adolescents. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 52(2), 151-180. Impact
Factor: 2.446.
Averdijk, M. (2014). Methodological challenges in the study of age-victimization patterns.
Can we use the accelerated design of the NCVS to reconstruct victim careers? International
Review of Victimology, 20, 265-288.
Averdijk, M., Eisner, M. & Ribeaud, D. (2014). Do social relationships protect victimized
children against internalizing problems? Journal of School Violence, 13(1), 80-99.
Malti, T., Averdijk, M., Ribeaud, D., Rotenberg, K., & Eisner, M. (2012). “Do you trust him?”
Children’s trust beliefs and developmental trajectories of aggressive behavior in an ethnically
diverse sample. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41, 445-456. Impact Factor: 3.579.
Averdijk, M., & Elffers, H. (2012). The discrepancy between survey-based victim accounts
and police reports revisited. International Review of Victimology, 18, 91-107.
Averdijk, M., & Loeber, R. (2012). The role of self-control in the link between prior and future
victimization: An indirect test. International Review of Victimology, 18, 189—206.
Averdijk, M., Malti, T., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2012). Parental separation and child
aggressive and internalizing behavior: An Event History Calendar Analysis. Child Psychiatry
and Human Development, 43, 184-200. Impact Factor: 1.839.
Averdijk, M. (2011). Reciprocal effects between victimization and routine activities. Journal
of Quantitative Criminology, 27, 125-149. Impact Factor: 2.226.
Averdijk, M., Müller, B., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2011). Bullying victimization and later
anxiety and depression among pre-adolescents in Switzerland. Journal of Aggression, Conflict
and Peace Research, 3, 103-109.
Averdijk, M., Malti, T., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2011). Trajectories of aggressive behavior
and children’s social-cognitive development. International Journal of Developmental Science,
5, 103-111. Impact Factor: 2.380.
Averdijk, M., Besemer, S., Eisner, M., Bijleveld, C., & Ribeaud, D. (2011). The relationship
between quantity, type, and timing of external childcare and child problem behaviour in
Switzerland. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 637-660. Impact Factor:
0.792.
Elffers, H., Reynald, D., Averdijk, M., Bernasco, W. & Block, R. (2008). Modeling crime flow
between neighbourhoods in terms of distance and of intervening opportunities. Crime
Prevention and Community Safety, 10, 85-96.
Reynald, D., Averdijk, M., Elffers, H. & Bernasco, W. (2008). Do Social Barriers Affect Urban
2
Crime Trips? The Effects of Ethnic and Economic Neighbourhood Compositions on the Flow
of Crime in The Hague, The Netherlands. Built Environment (Special issue Crime in the City,
Hirschfield, A., ed), 34, 21-31.
Weerman, F. M., Bijleveld, C. C. J. H., & Averdijk, M. D. E. (2005). Netwerken en
netwerkposities van delinquente en niet-delinquente jongeren [Networks and network positions
of delinquent and non-delinquent adolescents]. Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, 47, 24-41.
Reprinted in Bruinsma, G. J. N., Huisman, W., & Van Swaaningen, R. (2005).
Basisteksten in de Criminologie I: Aard, omvang en verklaringen [Fundamental Texts
in Criminology I: Nature, extent and explanations]. Boom: Den Haag.
Book chapters
Averdijk, M. (in press). Victim selection. In Bernasco, W., Elffers, H., and Van Gelder, J. L.
(Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Offender Decision Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Averdijk, M., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (in press). Friendship and status. Discrepancy
between teacher-perceived and sociometric popularity and its relations with behavioral styles
and peer victimization. Liber Amicorum Gerben Bruinsma. Amsterdam: NSCR & Afdeling
Criminologie Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Eisner, M., Murray, A.J., Ribeaud, D., Averdijk, M., and van Gelder, J.-L. (in press). From the
Savannah to the Magistrate’s Court: The Roots of Criminal Justice in Evolved Human
Psychology, Ben Jann, B. and Przepiorka, W. (eds). Social Dilemmas, Institutions and the
Evolution of Cooperation. Berlin: de Gruyter
Averdijk, M. (2015). Children and adolescents as victims of sexual violence in Switzerland:
Research findings and preventions strategies. In Schwarzenegger, C., & Nägeli, R. (Eds.),
Achtes Zürcher Präventionsforum – Kinder als Opfer von Kriminalität – Aktuelle
kriminalpräventive Ansätze, pp. 9-24. Zürich: Schulthess.
Averdijk, M., Elffers, H. & Ruiter, S. (2015). Effecten van sociale omgeving en buurt op
criminele carrières [Effects of the social environment and neighborhoods on criminal careers].
In Loeber, R., Hoeve, M., Slot, W., and Van der Laan, P. (Eds.), Jonge criminelen die volwassen
worden. Wat beïnvloedt hun gedrag en wat is de rol van Justitie? [Young criminals mature.
What influences their behavior and what is the role of the judicial system?] Amsterdam:
Uitgeverij SWP, 77-98. *(Dutch translation of Averdijk, Elffers, & Ruiter, 2012).
Averdijk, M. (2014). Victimization and routine activities. In Michalos, A. C. (Ed.),
Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Dordrecht: Springer.
Averdijk, M., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2013). Method effects in survey questions about peer
victimization. In Ruiter, S., Bernasco, W., Huisman, W., & Bruinsma, G. J. N. (Eds). Eenvoud
& Verscheidenheid. Liber Amicorum voor Henk Elffers [Simplicity and Diversity. Festschrift
for Henk Elffers], pp. 425-440. Amsterdam: NSCR & Afdeling Criminologie Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam.
Averdijk, M., Elffers, H., & Ruiter, S. (2012). Disentangling context effects on criminal careers
during adolescence and into early adulthood. In Loeber, R., Hoeve, M., Slot, N. W., and van
der Laan, P. (Eds.), Persisters and Desisters in Crime from Adolescence into Adulthood:
Explanation, prevention and punishment, pp. 51-76. Aldershot: Ashgate.
3
Elffers, H. & Averdijk, M. (2012). Slachtofferenquêtes overschatten het criminaliteitsniveau
nogal stevig [Victim surveys overestimate the crime level]. In: Pauwels, L., S. de Keulenaer, S.
Deltenre, E. Devroe, H. Elffers, J. Forceville, R. Kerkab, E. Maes, D. Moons, S. Pleysier, P.
Ponsaers, E. van Dael (Eds.) Criminografische ontwikkelingen II: van (victim)-survey tot
penitentiaire statistiek. Panopticon Libri 5, Maklu, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn, 27-38.
Miscellaneous articles and reports
z-proso team (2015). Factsheet: Education, leisure time, dating & problem behavior among 17year-olds: Key findings of the 7th wave of the Zurich Project on the Social Development of
Children and Youths (z-proso).
Averdijk, M., & Eisner, M. (2015). Prävention sexueller Gewalt gegen Kinder und
Jugendliche: Alters- und kontextspezifische Strategien. Prävention: Zeitschrift für
Gesundheitsförderung, 2/2015, 38-41.
Averdijk, M., & Eisner, M. (2014). Wirksame Gewaltprävention. Eine Übersicht zum
internationalen Wissensstand [Effective violence prevention. An overview of the international
knowledge base]. Soziale Sicherheit, 5/2014. [Summary of same-named report mentioned
above]
Averdijk, M., & Schwarzenegger, C. (2013). Vergleich zwischen Polizeidaten und
Befragungsdaten. Zusatzauswertungen zu Kriminalität und Kriminalitätserleben in der Stadt.
[A comparison between police and survey data. Extra analyses for Crime and crime perceptions
in the city]. Zurich, Switzerland: Universität Zürich.
Averdijk, M., & Schwarzenegger, C. (2013). Kriminalität und Kriminalitätserleben in der
Stadt. Ergebnisse für die neun österreichischen Landeshauptstädte [Crime and crime
perceptions in the city. Results for the nine provincial capital cities]. Zurich, Switzerland:
Universität Zürich.
Averdijk, M., Schwarzenegger, C., & Studer, D. (2012). Kriminalität und Kriminalitätserleben
in der Stadt. Ergebnisse für Linz, Graz und Innsbruck [Crime and crime perceptions in the city.
Results for Linz, Graz and Innsbruck]. Zurich, Switzerland: Universität Zürich.
Averdijk, M. (2009). The Age-Victimization Curve: The Applicability of the Accelerated
Design of the NCVS (NSCR-2009-1). Amsterdam, Netherlands: NSCR.
Elffers, H. & Averdijk, M. D. E. (2007). Aangeven aan te geven? [Reporting crime reported?]
(NSCR-2007-5). Leiden, Netherlands: NSCR.
Reynald, D., Averdijk, M., Bernasco, W. & Elffers, H. (2006). Do Social Barriers Affect
Urban Crime Trips? The Effects of Ethnic and Socio-Economic Neighbourhood Compositions
on the Flow of Crime in The Hague, The Netherlands (NSCR-2006-4). Leiden, Netherlands:
NSCR.
Averdijk, M., Bernasco, W., Elffers, H., & Reynald, D. (2006). Neighbourhood Variations in
Clearance Rates. The Role of Formal and Informal Control. (NSCR-2006-2). Leiden,
Netherlands: NSCR.
4
Averdijk, M. & Molenaar, H. (2005). Geweldsanalyse 2004 van de Politie Regio Utrecht
[Analysis of violence trends 2004. Police Region Utrecht]. Soest, Netherlands: Politie Utrecht.
Averdijk, M. (2004). Jeugdgroepen in Amersfoort [Youth groups in the city of Amersfoort].
Soest, Netherlands: Politie Utrecht.
Averdijk, M. (2002). Prostitutie naar een illegaal en onzichtbaar circuit? Een verkennend
onderzoek naar enkele onbedoelde gevolgen van de opheffing van het bordeelverbod in Twente.
[Prostitution moving towards an illegal and invisible circuit? An explorative study of some of
the unintended consequences of the legalization of brothels] (Masters Thesis). Universiteit
Twente, Enschede.
5

(Data 1 and Data 2).