Gendered Opportunity? School-Based Adolescent Victimization  

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Wilcox, Pamela ; Tillyer, Marie Skubak ; Fisher, Bonnie S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (http://jrc.sagepub.com/) vol. 46 no. 2 (May 2009), page 245.
Topik: Victimization; Opportunity; School Crime; Gender

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ95.10 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Researchers have shown that criminal opportunity significantly predicts school-based adolescent victimization. However, little is known about the extent to which opportunity for school-based victimization might be gendered. In this study, the authors drew from criminal opportunity and feminist research and extended the principle of homogamy to explore how gender interacts with opportunity and school-based victimization. Data collected from 2001 to 2004 from 10,522 students in 111 middle and high schools throughout Kentucky were used to examine whether indicators of criminal opportunity placed students, particularly girls, at heightened risk for school-based theft and physical assault victimization. The results of gender-specific hierarchical logistic regression models indicated that measures of criminal opportunity were significantly related to theft and assault for both sexes. Equality-of-coefficient tests supported gendered effects for some opportunity indicators, with differences indicating that the effects of risk and protective factors for victimization were heightened for girls.

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