JOURNAL OF DRUG ISSUES 0022-0426/06/04 953-974 __________Stephen Ostertag is a Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut. His interests include crime, deviance and social control, mass media and culture. This paper is an adaptation of his master's thesis. Brad Wright, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut where he studies the social psychology of crime and deviance. Robert S. Broadhead, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut and the principal investigator of the NIDA-funded study (RO1 DA12112) from which this analysis derived. Frederick Altice, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine with the Yale University School of Medicine and the Yale AIDS Program and the co-principal investigator of the project from which this analysis is derived.

Objectives: Examine the relationship between parental rural-to-urban migration, caretaking arrangement, and left-behind children's self-reported victimization in rural China. The direct effect of parental migration on children's victimization as well as the indirect effect through positive caretaking and children's delinquent/problem behavior involvement is explored. Methods: The study uses data from the Parental Migration and Children's Well-being Survey, which collected information on parental migration and children's experience of victimization from a probability sample of 800 middle school students in southern China. Structural equation modeling is used to evaluate hypothesized models by simultaneously assessing direct and indirect effects. Results: Compared with children living with both parents in rural China, children left behind by their fathers have an elevated level of victimization. In addition, the chronic absence of fathers leads to a higher level of delinquent and problem behavior among left-behind children, which in turn leads to further victimization. Conclusion: Left-behind children living with

Scholarship on collective civic action helps link collective-level contentious actions and individual-level civic engagement. Using longitudinal data from a group of New Orleans residents who started blogging in the wake of hurricane Katrina, we highlight the digitally mediated social processes linking individual civic engagement with collective civic actions. Through a developmental approach, we analyze the progression from individual blogging to the creation of social networks, the formation of a community of "Katrina bloggers," and their engagement on a range of offline collective civic actions. We argue that the Web serves as a "virtual" mobilizing structure, enabling individuals with shared concerns to organize across time and space, without the need of copresence or preexisting formal ties, networks, or organizations. Our analysis provides insights into the development of virtual communities and social movements formed around collective identities and processes of collective efficacy that highlight the dynamics of contention in civil society.

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