Are college students really at a higher risk for stalking?: Exploring the generalizability of student samples in victimization research

Brady, Patrick Q.; Nobles, Matt R.; Bouffard, Leana A.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.07.003

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“…First, the study used a university‐based sample that largely consisted of young people majoring in criminology and criminal justice. Although prior research has shown that the results from a student sample often generalize fairly well when it comes to offending and victimization (Bouffard & Exum, ; Brady, Nobles, & Bouffard, ), it is possible that many of the students in this study do not subscribe to gender‐based stereotypes when it comes to policing. Accordingly, caution should be exercised when considering the generalizability of the findings to other populations (e.g., older age groups) until the findings are replicated using different samples.…”

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Procedural injustice, police legitimacy, and officer gender: A vignette‐based test of the invariance thesis

Brown

Reisig

2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Role congruity theory suggests that gender-based stereotypes can result in female police officers paying a higher price (i.e., viewed as less legitimate) relative to male officers for mistreating people. The invariance thesis posits that the effect of (un)fair treatment by legal authorities on legal attitudes and beliefs is stable across situations, time, and space.This study tested the invariance thesis by assessing whether the effect of procedural injustice on police legitimacy differed across officer gender. A factorial vignette survey that consisted of two types of citizen-initiated police encounters was administered to a university-based sample (N = 525).The results showed that the effect of procedural injustice had a powerful and significant influence on participants' legitimacy perceptions. These effects were consistent regardless of whether the treatment was doled out by a male or a female police officer. The findings provide support for the invariance thesis.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

Procedural injustice, police legitimacy, and officer gender: A vignette‐based test of the invariance thesis

Brown

Reisig

2019

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…Second, the findings from Azimi and Daigle’s (2017) analysis may indicate that the predictors of sexual victimization for individuals with disabilities vary from those observed in past studies on general samples of individuals or college students. As the preceding review demonstrates, the results from sexual and stalking victimization studies have been generally supportive of the lifestyle–routine activity approach and the importance of opportunity factors in understanding victimization risk for both sexual and stalking victimization among college students (e.g., Brady et al, 2017; Daigle, Fisher, & Cullen, 2008; Fisher et al, 2014; Nobles, Fox, Piquero, & Piquero, 2009; Tyler, Schmitz, & Adams, 2017). However, while disability has been identified as a risk factor for both types of victimization, it has only received limited empirical attention from within the lifestyle–routine activity perspective.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Regarding stalking victimization on college campuses, research finds that college students as a population are an often-victimized group, when compared with other groups (e.g., Belknap & Sharma, 2014; Brady, Nobles, & Bouffard, 2017). Similar to sexual victimization, operational definitions for stalking also vary across studies, with the majority of studies including behaviors such as repeated pursuit of the respondent; waiting for the respondent outside of their home, workplace, or classroom; and/or communicating with the respondent against his or her will (Fisher et al, 1999; Jordan, Wilcox, & Pritchard, 2007).…”

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Disability Type and Risk of Sexual and Stalking Victimization in a National Sample: A Lifestyle–Routine Activity Approach

Reyns

Scherer

2018

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Research findings from national samples indicate that people with disabilities have a higher risk of sexual and stalking victimization than their counterparts without disabilities. While this body of research indicates that disability is a risk factor for interpersonal victimization independent of known risk factors derived from the lifestyle–routine activity perspective, it has not yet been established whether the risk factors of victimization vary across disability type. Using survey data from approximately 40,000 college students from across the United States, this study addresses this issue by examining lifestyle–routine activity risk factors for victimization among subsamples of individuals with no disability, physical disabilities, mental disabilities, and learning disabilities. Results from multivariate binary logistic regression analyses indicate that risk factors for victimization vary across groups, with the greatest number of significant risk factors observed for students with no disabilities.

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“…Several policy implications can be gleaned from the results presented above. It is important to note that recent research suggests that college students and 18 to 24-year-olds in the general population experience stalking at similar rates (Brady, Nobles, & Bouffard, 2017). Therefore, although our results speak most to college students’ victimization, they may also be generalizable to nonstudents.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Stalking on Campus: A Gendered Perspective on Target Congruence and Opportunity

Elvey

Reyns

McNeeley

2018

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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This study examines target congruence and lifestyle-routine activity behaviors as explanations of stalking victimization among college students, while also considering gender as a moderator in these relationships. Analysis of a nationwide sample of more than 75,000 students from 129 universities across the United States suggests that indicators of target antagonism, target gratifiability, and target vulnerability significantly predict stalking victimization. Indicators of lifestyle-routine activities—in particular, proximity to motivated offenders, exposure to motivated offenders, and target attractiveness—are also significantly related to stalking victimization. In addition, the importance of specific risk factors vary by gender. The results highlight the importance of target congruence as an expansion of lifestyle-routine activities theory, which can help to direct policies and prevention measures in a meaningful and systematic way.

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Are college students really at a higher risk for stalking?: Exploring the generalizability of student samples in victimization research

Cited by 45 publications

References 27 publications

Procedural injustice, police legitimacy, and officer gender: A vignette‐based test of the invariance thesis

Procedural injustice, police legitimacy, and officer gender: A vignette‐based test of the invariance thesis

Disability Type and Risk of Sexual and Stalking Victimization in a National Sample: A Lifestyle–Routine Activity Approach

Stalking on Campus: A Gendered Perspective on Target Congruence and Opportunity

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