Hate Crime Polyvictimization in the Ivory Tower: Results From a Large-Scale Campus Climate Survey

• In Event: Experiencing Harm or Victimization on Campus

Abstract

The number of North American campus climate surveys has grown exponentially in recent years. Yet, conspicuously absent from most of these studies are measures of hate crime polyvictimization. Do student targets of hate crimes and bias incidents experiences multiple victimizations of several types? This is an empirical question that can only be answered empirically and this study is the first to document the presence of such polyvictimization among a representative sample of students at a large college in a South Atlantic region of the United States.

Authors

• Walter DeKeseredy, West Virginia University

• James Nolan, West Virginia University

• Adam J. Pritchard, Syracuse University

• Alison J. Marganski, Le Moyne College