Technology-facilitated Violence as an Integral Part of the Polyvictimization of College Women

• In Event: Roundtable: Gender-based/Sexual Violence - Cultural Values and Organizational Reasons for Underreporting and Under-prosecution

Abstract

The main objective of this presentation is to show how technology-facilitated violence is an integral part of the polyvictimization of college women. New survey data are also presented that show a strong relationship between negative peer support and polyvictimization of female students at institutions of higher learning.

Author

• Walter Steven DeKeseredy, West Virginia University