Citation

Wiersma-Mosley JD, Willis M, Jozkowski KN, Cleveland MJ. Violence Against Women 2019; ePub(ePub): 1077801219840436.

Affiliation

Washington State University, Pullman, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801219840436

PMID

31021704

Abstract

The current study examined violent crimes against women among 1,384 four-year private and public college campuses using Clery Act data from 2014-2016 (i.e., rape, domestic and dating violence, stalking, and fondling). Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify five types of campuses: smaller (22%), liberal arts (25%), satellite (16%), private (19%), and party schools (18%). Smaller schools reported the lowest rates of violence against women (VAW), whereas private schools had significantly higher reported rapes. These findings have important implications for the types of campuses seem to be abiding by Clery law and reporting crimes that involve VAW.

Language: en

Keywords

Clery data; Greek life; latent class analysis; party schools; violence against women