Citation

Wilcox P, Augustine MC, Bryan JP, Roberts SD. J. School Violence 2005; 4(2): 3-27.

Affiliation

Division of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, PO Box 210389, 600 Dyer Hall, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0389

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1300/J202v04n02_02

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

While actual, "objective" experiences with crime in school are very important, so too are "subjective" experiences with crime--including cognitive perceptions of the likelihood of experiencing school crime and the emotionally-based fear of school crime. Moreover, objective and subjective experiences with crime (and the differences among them) might be quite different depending upon the type of crime in question; patterns of objective versus subjective experiences may not be generalizable but instead might be crime-specific. The present study extends the literature by providing a descriptive comparison of objective versus subjective experiences with school-based crime. More specifically, we compare the prevalence of actual victimization experiences with subjective cognitive-based risk perceptions and emotionally-based, fears of crime for seven different specific offenses and then compare the relationships between these various school-crime experiences and sociodemographic covariates in order to see how objective and subjective experiences are affected similarly or differently by race, class, gender, and place of residence. Finally, we examine the inter-relationships among victimization, risk and.