A Multidimensional Examination of Campus Safety: Victimization, Perceptions of Danger, Worry About Crime, and Precautionary Behavior Among College Women in the Post-Clery Era
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.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2007
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0097700405283664
Repository Citation
Wilcox, P., Jordan, C.E., & Pritchard, A.J. (2007). A multidimensional examination of campus safety: Victimization, perception of danger, worry about crime, and precautionary behavior among college women in the post-Clery era. Crime & Delinquency, 53(3), 1-36.
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Crime & Delinquency, v. 53, no. 2, p. 219-254.