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A Multidimensional Examination of Campus Safety: Victimization, Perceptions of Danger, Worry About Crime, and Precautionary Behavior Among College Women in the Post-Clery Era
Crime & Delinquency (2007)
  • Pamela Wilcox, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
  • Carol E. Jordan, University of Kentucky
  • Adam J. Pritchard, University of Kentucky
Abstract
Using data from a spring 2004 telephone survey of 1,010 female undergraduate and graduate studnets 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 acquaintenance versus stranger-perpetrated experiences. Results suggest that there is a loose coupling between actual victimization and subjective crime experiences. Implications for how colleges and universities publicly reprot crime and victimization, as mandated by the Clery Act, are discussed in light of these findings.
Keywords
  • campus safety,
  • victimization,
  • fear of crime,
  • violence against
Publication Date
April, 2007
Citation Information
Pamela Wilcox, Carol E. Jordan and Adam J. Pritchard. "A Multidimensional Examination of Campus Safety: Victimization, Perceptions of Danger, Worry About Crime, and Precautionary Behavior Among College Women in the Post-Clery Era" Crime & Delinquency Vol. 53 Iss. 2 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/caroljordan/33/