SOCL 3510 Lecture : SOCL 3510 Stevenson 07012016 W/ Lecture Notes
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College women are less likely to be victims of overall violence, but little difference for men. For females, non-students were over 1. 5x more likely than college students to be a victim of a violent crime. For males, students and non-students were equally likely to be the victims of a violent crime; there"s no difference. 93% of crimes occurred off campus, of which 72% occurred at night. 41% of offenders were perceived to be using alcohol or drugs. Except for rape/sexual assaults, college students were most often violently victimized by people they did not know: 80% of robberies, 60% of assaults, 20% of rapes/sexual assaults of college students were committed by strangers. Sexual victimizations the exception: college student"s victims were 4x likely to be victimized by someone they knew vs a stranger (high level of acquaintance involvement) Simple assault (no weapon) account for about 2/3 of college student violent crimes (63%) while rape/sexual assault accounted for around 6%
