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Treseler-Golden, Kelly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
One in five women are sexually assaulted while in college (Cantor et al., 2015; Ali, 2011). Research has demonstrated that higher education is a patriarchal environment that is oppressive to women in a number of spheres (Acker, 1990; Burnett et al., 2009; Catalano, 2014; Miriam, 2007; Walby, 1989). Past research on sexual assault and patriarchy…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Females, Undergraduate Students, Educational Experience
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Wolff, Nancy; Shi, Jing – Crime & Delinquency, 2011
Little is known about the patterns of sexual victimization inside prisons and their relationship to inmates' feelings of safety. This study examined patterns of sexual victimization with and without co-occurring physical victimization and feelings of safety as reported by 6,964 male and 564 female inmates. Respondents completed a computerized…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Safety, Correctional Institutions, Victims of Crime
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Lay, Margaret; Papadopoulos, Irena – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objectives: The study described in this paper sought to identify the social, cultural, and political factors that effect African unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors' (UASM) vulnerability to sexual maltreatment in England. It aimed to illuminate how child protection measures could be strengthened for this highly marginalized group. Methods: A mixed…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Sexual Harassment, Child Abuse, Foreign Countries