ERIC Number: EJ835411
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 25
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Gendered Opportunity? School-Based Adolescent Victimization
Wilcox, Pamela; Tillyer, Marie Skubak; Fisher, Bonnie S.
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, v46 n2 p245-269 2009
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. (Contains 3 tables and 9 notes.)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Females, Criminals, Victims of Crime, Gender Issues, Bullying, Adolescents, Middle School Students, High School Students, At Risk Students, Gender Differences, Delinquency, Males
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kentucky
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