Though there have been many studies that have identified the relationship between victimization and criminal behavior, the findings of these studies have been limited to the shared characteristics of victims and their offenders, ignoring the directional relationship between offending and subsequent victimization. The current study attempts to identify the direct effect of the onset of violence on victimization, as it takes into consideration the characteristics of victims and their offenders. Using a method of propensity score matching, the current study selected two groups of juveniles who exhibited the same propensity towards violence prior to its onset, comparing those that eventually committed violence and those that did not. The results of the study indicate that there is a direct effect of violence on the onset of future victimization, even when controlling for the shared characteristics of more than fifteen related factors.