Racial/Ethnic Variations in Polyvictimization: Results From a Large-Scale Campus Climate Survey

• In Event: Current Research on Poly Victims and Repeat Victims of Violence

Abstract

Social scientific knowledge of the extent, distribution, causes, and consequences of various types of interpersonal violence on North American college campuses has advanced significantly since the 1980s. Nevertheless, major research gaps still exist, including a conspicuous absence of reliable quantitative data on racial/ethnic variations in polyvictimization. Using results of the Campus Quality of Life Survey conducted at a large doctoral institution of higher learning in the South Atlantic region of the United States, this article shows that non-white and white students are equally at risk of experience multiple types of victimizations of different kinds, such as stalking, sexual harassment, physical violence, and sexual assault.

Authors

• Walter S. DeKeseredy, West Virginia University

• Adam J. Pritchard, Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University

• Danielle M. Stoneberg, West Virginia University

• James Nolan, West Virginia University