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Beyond the Party Lifestyle: A Quantitative Analysis of Sexual Victimization Among College Students

Elvey, Kathryn
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-2924
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470044052

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2016, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Criminal Justice.
The last two years have been a time of marked interest in understanding and stopping victimization, specifically, the sexual victimization of college students. With increasing interest and focus on sexual victimization it is important to understand why it happens to keep it from occurring as well as help develop policies and procedures that target particular behaviors and populations, which might be at an increased risk of such victimization. Despite the current increased interest among the public and government concerning sexual victimization on college campuses this is not a new topic, it is one that has received attention from the public, media, the government, and academia for almost three decades. Studies on the sexual victimization of college students over the last 20 to 30 years revealed that students who lead particular “party” lifestyles are at an increased risk of victimization. Recently, research has begun to move beyond the party lifestyles and examine other factors –such as personal characteristics, defined as target congruence measures—that may be contributing to risk of victimization in order to develop a fuller picture of risk factors to help prevent future victimization from occurring. This study extends past research by bridging the gap between these two theories—of lifestyle-routine activities and target congruence—by examining the relationship between all three concepts of target congruence while controlling for all four concepts of lifestyles-routine activities theory among a national-level sample of college students. Furthermore, this study examines female and male subsamples in order to better understand how sex may be acting as a moderating variable, which may impact future prevention and intervention measures. Bivariate and multivariate results indicate that there is strong evidence that certain measures of target congruence should be added to future research. Every model showed significant improvement with the addition of target congruence measures above and beyond just lifestyle-routine activities measures. In addition, there is evidence that sex acts not only as a main effect, but also as a moderator. Implications for future research, prevention, intervention, and policy measures are presented.
Sandra Browning, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Bradford W. Reyns, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Bonnie Sue Fisher, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Wooldredge, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
302 p.
Criminology
Victimization; Routine Activities; Target Congruence; Sexual Assault

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  • Elvey, K. (2016). Beyond the Party Lifestyle: A Quantitative Analysis of Sexual Victimization Among College Students [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470044052

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Elvey, Kathryn. Beyond the Party Lifestyle: A Quantitative Analysis of Sexual Victimization Among College Students. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470044052.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Elvey, Kathryn. "Beyond the Party Lifestyle: A Quantitative Analysis of Sexual Victimization Among College Students." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470044052

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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