Title

Strategies For College Student Stalking Victims: Examining The Information And Recommendations Available

Keywords

College students; Crime Prevention; Responses to stalking; Stalking

Abstract

The college population is at a heightened risk for stalking victimization; yet it is suggested that college administrators have ignored stalking while focusing on other types of crimes, such as rape. Therefore, the present study seeks to examine the amount of attention universities are giving stalking as a crime that is a risk for their students. Additionally, this paper considers what types of information, recommendations, and strategies for effective responses to this type of victimization (if any) universities are providing to their students. In order examine university responses to stalking, a sample of Florida universities were observed by searching each university's web page on the Internet. The data obtained from the university websites were analyzed through content analysis. Overall, it does in fact appear that Florida universities are addressing stalking in some manner, and the information they are providing to students is consistent with the current academic research. © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC.

Publication Date

6-1-2009

Publication Title

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Volume

34

Issue

1-2

Number of Pages

69-83

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-008-9051-1

Socpus ID

65049085498 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/65049085498

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