A Multidimensional Examination of Campus Safety: Victimization, Perceptions of Danger, Worry about Crime, and Precautionary Behavior among College Women in the Post-Clery Era

Autor/inn/en	Wilcox, Pamela; Jordan, Carol E.; Pritchard, Adam J.
Titel	A Multidimensional Examination of Campus Safety: Victimization, Perceptions of Danger, Worry about Crime, and Precautionary Behavior among College Women in the Post-Clery Era
Quelle	In: Crime & Delinquency, 53 (2007) 2, S.219-254 (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0011-1287
DOI	10.1177/0097700405283664
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Sexual Abuse; Crime; Females; Telephone Surveys; Victims of Crime; School Safety; Fear; Undergraduate Students; Rape; Violence; Student Behavior; Correlation; At Risk Persons; Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Sexueller Missbrauch; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Weibliches Geschlecht; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Furcht; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Gewalt; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Korrelation; Risikogruppe; Erfahrung
Abstract	Using data from a spring 2004 telephone survey of 1,010 female undergraduate and graduate students at one southeastern state university, the authors examine the objective and subjective experiences with sexual assault or coercion, physical assault, and stalking among college women, paying particular attention to whether actual victimization experiences while in college coincide with cognitive assessments of campus risk, emotionally based worry about crime, and fear-related precautionary behavior. Furthermore, the authors explore whether these interrelationships might be perpetrator specific, focusing on differences in risk perception, worry, or precautionary behavior across acquaintance versus stranger-perpetrated victimization experiences. Results suggest that there is a loose coupling between actual victimization and subjective crime experiences. Implications for how colleges and universities publicly report crime and victimization, as mandated by the Clery Act, are discussed in light of these findings. Appended are: (1) Screening Items for Stalking, Physical Assault, and Sexual Assault. (Contains 5 tables, 3 figures and 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10