Citation

Ménard KS, Cox AK. Violence Against Women 2016; 22(6): 671-691.

Affiliation

Penn State Altoona, PA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215610862

PMID

26472665

Abstract

Using the National Crime Victimization Survey 2006 Stalking Victimization Supplement (NCVS-SVS) and guided by Greenberg and Ruback's social influence model, this study examines the effects of individual (e.g., severity, sex, victim-offender relationship) and contextual (e.g., location) factors on stalking victimization risk, victim labeling and help seeking, and victim and third-party police contacts. Logistic regression results suggest individual and contextual characteristics matter. Consistent with prior research and the theoretical model, the positive effects of severity and sex (female) were significant across all dependent variables, whereas the interaction effect of victim-offender relationship and location held only for third-party police contacts.

Language: en