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Unsafe in the ivory tower: the sexual victimization of college women
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Publisher
Sage Publications
Publication Date
c2010
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Preface
1. The discovery of sexual victimization
Beyond real rape
Sexual victimization in context
The hidden figure of rape
Specially designed victimization surveys
Koss's Sexual Experiences Survey
What the sexual experiences survey (SES) measures
What did Koss find?
One in four : publicizing the rape epidemic
Two critiques
Gilbert : the dangers of advocacy research
Roiphe : the morning after
What's ahead
2. Beyond the culture wars : the measurement of sexual victimization
The National Crime Victimization Survey
How the NCVS measures victimization
The first step in measuring sexual victimization : the NCVS screen questions
The second step in measuring sexual victimization : the NCVS incident report
Measuring rape : completed, attempted, or threatened
Measuring sexual assault
Beyond the NCVS
Measuring sexual victimization : the next generation
The National Women's Study
Study design
Measuring forcible rape
Methodological lessons learned
The National Violence Against Women Survey
Study design
Measuring rape
Perpetrator report for rape
Classifying victimizations
Comparison of rape results
Stalking
The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study
Study design
Measuring sexual victimization
Measuring rape through the incident report
Revisiting the Koss-Gilbert debate
Answering "yes" to a behaviorally specific rape question
Answering "yes" to a non-rape screen question
Comparing two studies
Conclusion
3. The risk of rape : unsafe in the ivory tower?
Coming to college as a rape victim
Rape during the college years : Koss revisited
Sexual Experiences Survey
Studies using the SES
Results from Canada
Results from campus studies using other victimization measures
The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study
The extent of rape : is there a crisis?
The context of rape
Is college a risk factor?
Forms of rape
What rapes have in common
How rapes differ
The role of drugs and alcohol
Koss revisited
again
Harvard's college alcohol study
Kilpatrick et al.'s national study of drug-facilitated, incapacitated, and forcible rape
Conclusion
4. Beyond rape : the pervasiveness of sexual victimization
Moving beyond the study of rape
Categorizing sexual victimization
Type of contact
Degree of coercion
Degree of action
A framework for categorizing sexual victimization
Sexual coercion
Tactics
Measurement of sexual coercion
Extent of sexual coercion
Unwanted sexual contact
Measurement of unwanted sexual contact
Extent of unwanted sexual contact
Noncontact sexual abuse
Measurement of noncontact sexual abuse
Extent of noncontact verbal abuse
Extent of noncontact visual abuse
Noncontact abuse in students' everyday lives
Conclusion
5. It happened again : sexual revictimization
Crime revictimization
Extent of revictimization
Concentration of revictimization
Time course of revictimization
Crime-switch patterns
Sexual revictimization
Extent of sexual revictimization
Revictimization across developmental periods
Sexual revictimization among college women : the NCWSV Study
Sexual revictimization over time
Extent of sexual revictimization
Time course of sexual revictimization
Crime-switch patterns
Why does sexual revictimization occur?
Risk heterogeneity : routines/lifestyles matter
Event dependence : first incidents matter
Findings from the NCWSV Study
Explaining sexual victimization
Explaining revictimization
Conclusion
6. Victim secrets : acknowledging and reporting sexual victimization
Acknowledging victimization
Koss's Sexual Experiences Survey
The NCWSV Study
What do unacknowledged victims call it?
Consequences of acknowledgment
Beneficial effects
Harmful effects
Few effects
Factors related to acknowledgment
Individual factors
Situational factors
Reporting sexual victimization to the police
The importance of reporting
Why don't college women report sexual victimization?
Findings from the NCWSV Study
Findings from other studies on reporting
Reasons for reporting victimizations
Implications
Factors that influence reporting
Incident characteristics
Offender characteristics
Victim characteristics
Contextual characteristics
Reporting to other people : telling friends
Whom do victims tell?
Consequences of telling others
Conclusion
7. Being pursued : the stalking of female students
Opportunities for stalking
College student characteristics
The campus setting
Students' lifestyles and routine activities
Research on the extent of stalking
Studies of college students
Tjaden and Thoennes's National Violence Against Women Study
Measuring stalking in the NCWSV Study
The extent of stalking
The nature of stalking
Pursuing victims
Victim-stalker interaction
Who is at risk of being stalked?
How do victims react?
Actions taken by victims
Reporting stalking
Conclusion
8. Creating safe havens : preventing sexual victimization
Two themes
Beyond ideology : the importance of methodology
Hidden inequality : the cost of being a female student
Three approaches for preventing victimization
Conservative approach
Feminist approach
Legal approach
Opportunity-reduction approach : situational crime prevention
Situational crime prevention
Discourage offenders
Decrease target attractiveness
Increase capable guardianship
Preventing stalking
Conclusion
References
Index
About the authors.
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ISBN
9781412954778
9781412954761
9781412954761
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