TY - JOUR
T1 - A multidimensional examination of campus safety
T2 - Victimization, perceptions of danger, worry about crime, and precautionary behavior among college women in the post-clery era
AU - Wilcox, Pamela
AU - Jordan, Carol E.
AU - Pritchard, Adam J.
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1177/0097700405283664
DO - 10.1177/0097700405283664
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34047143924
SN - 0011-1287
VL - 53
SP - 219
EP - 254
JO - Crime and Delinquency
JF - Crime and Delinquency
IS - 2
ER -