Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2139032
Leah C. Butler, Erica R. Fissel, Brian Gildea, B. Fisher
ABSTRACT Research indicates non-cisgender and non-heterosexual individuals experience higher rates of intimate partner violence compared to their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts. It is unknown if this is the case for intimate partner cyber abuse (IPCA). Thus, the current study examines IPCA prevalence rates among a sample of adults in intimate partnerships and compares these rates across four partnership categories, defined by gender identity and sexual orientation. We also assess prevalence rates within five IPCA domains and patterns of recurring victimization. Findings suggest victimization experiences may differ across partnership categories and highlight the need for further research with non-heterosexual and non-cisgender populations.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2140463
Philip Mulvey, Shelly L. Clevenger
This special issue for the American Society of Criminology, Division of Victimology focuses on the important consideration of vulnerable victimizations. As guest editors, our primary goal in this endeavor is to showcase research centered on individuals and/or populations, that due to their status, have less power in society, are socially controlled in unique ways in the criminal–legal system, or are members of marginalized groups with specialized considerations surrounding their victimization experiences. Each of these selections in the special issue provide our discipline relevant scholarship on the overall victimization experience, and at the same time, are also centered on the victimization experiences of historically ignored and/or marginalized groups. While doing so we also seek to highlight both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in the current issue and employ a modality of theoretical lenses to examine these questions. We open the special issue exploring vulnerable victimizations within the carceral setting. First Terry’s article examines the in-depth experiences of young women in a rural prison setting, one the author notes is “a destination most view as sterile, uninviting, and revictimizing” for these criminally involved young women who were also often victimized in their communities, creating “an abuse to prison pipeline.” In the second selection, Melander and Garni examine gender-based violence among U.S. asylum seekers. The authors use ethnographic fieldwork to investigate the gendered victimization experiences of immigrant girls and women seeking asylum in the United States. Next, Jones, Worthen, Heim, Sharp, and McLeod consider a feminist life-course perspective to examine the adverse childhood experiences of criminally involved Native American women demonstrating that coercive control impacts criminally involved Native American and non-Native American women in distinctive ways. We then transition to explore vulnerable victimizations outside the carceral setting – including how gender, race/ethnicity, and LGBTQ+ individuals experience victimization. In an article by Fissel, Butler, Fisher, and Gildea, intimate partner cyber abuse is examined by prevalence rate and frequency of occurrence across different types of intimate partner relationships. The authors consider how individuals in heterosexual and non-heterosexual relationships differ in cyber victimization across gender identification and find some notable predictors within these demographic differences. Afterward, an article by Ratajczak and Teut explores Title IX policy adopting a feminist and queer perspective to discuss how the expansion of Title IX protections to transgender and gender non-conforming students can help protect them against discrimination. Next, Outlaw, Menard, Teasdale, and Bradley build upon our understanding of the increased prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) risk for sexual minorities, by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of A
{"title":"Introduction and Organization for Special Issue","authors":"Philip Mulvey, Shelly L. Clevenger","doi":"10.1080/15564886.2022.2140463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2140463","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue for the American Society of Criminology, Division of Victimology focuses on the important consideration of vulnerable victimizations. As guest editors, our primary goal in this endeavor is to showcase research centered on individuals and/or populations, that due to their status, have less power in society, are socially controlled in unique ways in the criminal–legal system, or are members of marginalized groups with specialized considerations surrounding their victimization experiences. Each of these selections in the special issue provide our discipline relevant scholarship on the overall victimization experience, and at the same time, are also centered on the victimization experiences of historically ignored and/or marginalized groups. While doing so we also seek to highlight both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in the current issue and employ a modality of theoretical lenses to examine these questions. We open the special issue exploring vulnerable victimizations within the carceral setting. First Terry’s article examines the in-depth experiences of young women in a rural prison setting, one the author notes is “a destination most view as sterile, uninviting, and revictimizing” for these criminally involved young women who were also often victimized in their communities, creating “an abuse to prison pipeline.” In the second selection, Melander and Garni examine gender-based violence among U.S. asylum seekers. The authors use ethnographic fieldwork to investigate the gendered victimization experiences of immigrant girls and women seeking asylum in the United States. Next, Jones, Worthen, Heim, Sharp, and McLeod consider a feminist life-course perspective to examine the adverse childhood experiences of criminally involved Native American women demonstrating that coercive control impacts criminally involved Native American and non-Native American women in distinctive ways. We then transition to explore vulnerable victimizations outside the carceral setting – including how gender, race/ethnicity, and LGBTQ+ individuals experience victimization. In an article by Fissel, Butler, Fisher, and Gildea, intimate partner cyber abuse is examined by prevalence rate and frequency of occurrence across different types of intimate partner relationships. The authors consider how individuals in heterosexual and non-heterosexual relationships differ in cyber victimization across gender identification and find some notable predictors within these demographic differences. Afterward, an article by Ratajczak and Teut explores Title IX policy adopting a feminist and queer perspective to discuss how the expansion of Title IX protections to transgender and gender non-conforming students can help protect them against discrimination. Next, Outlaw, Menard, Teasdale, and Bradley build upon our understanding of the increased prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) risk for sexual minorities, by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of A","PeriodicalId":47085,"journal":{"name":"Victims & Offenders","volume":"18 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43411681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2137612
M. Outlaw, Brent Teasdale, Mindy S. Bradley, Kim S. Ménard
ABSTRACT This paper examines intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization risk of bisexual individuals compared with their straight and gay peers, highlighting the ways in which risky lifestyle factors and feelings of marginalization operate to increase risk. We theorize that both behavioral and stigma-related risk factors identified in previous work may be systematically different in the bisexual population compared to their straight peers, thus increasing IPV risk. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Wave 4, N = 14,415), we examine the extent to which risky behaviors and feelings of marginalization mediate the impact of bisexual identity on IPV risk. Findings suggest bisexual individuals are significantly more at risk for IPV (OR = 1.60) than their straight and gay peers. Their increased risk is explained by risky behaviors (e.g., drug use and number of partners), and feeling unloved. Adjusting for these mediators, the effect of being bisexual on IPV is reduced substantially (OR = 1.27) but remains significant. Understanding the unique stigmatization experiences and vulnerability of this population is critical for designing effective victimization prevention strategies. It is important to consider risk reduction strategies that may be uniquely important for bisexual adults and mitigating the burdens of stigma.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2136320
Jin R. Lee, Yongjae Nam, Hannah Tessler
ABSTRACT Violent crimes targeting the Asian-American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) community has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. While Anti-Asian violence existed before the pandemic, few have examined the predictors of AAPI crime victimization. Given this gap in the literature, the current study examined the factors that predicted violent and nonviolent crime victimization using a sample of 342 victimization incidents from 292 individuals self-identified as AAPI in the 2019 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The implications of this analysis for our understanding of AAPI victimization will be discussed in detail, along with future directions for research involving anti-Asian racism and violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2135653
Melissa S. Jones, Meredith G. F. Worthen, M. Heim, S. Sharp, D. McLeod
ABSTRACT The purposes of the current study are two-fold. First, we examine how ACEs influence being a victim of IPV coercive control among Native American (n = 92) and non-Native American (n = 263) justice-involved women using data from the 2014 Oklahoma Study of Mother’s and Their Children. Second, because little research exists on these relationships, we explore how these patterns may vary among Native American and non-Native American women. Our findings suggest that there is not only a clear link between ACEs and coercive control among justice-involved women, but also that these relationships vary between Native American and non-Native American women.
{"title":"Differences in Adverse Childhood Experiences and Coercive Control among Native American and Non-Native American Justice-Involved Women","authors":"Melissa S. Jones, Meredith G. F. Worthen, M. Heim, S. Sharp, D. McLeod","doi":"10.1080/15564886.2022.2135653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2135653","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purposes of the current study are two-fold. First, we examine how ACEs influence being a victim of IPV coercive control among Native American (n = 92) and non-Native American (n = 263) justice-involved women using data from the 2014 Oklahoma Study of Mother’s and Their Children. Second, because little research exists on these relationships, we explore how these patterns may vary among Native American and non-Native American women. Our findings suggest that there is not only a clear link between ACEs and coercive control among justice-involved women, but also that these relationships vary between Native American and non-Native American women.","PeriodicalId":47085,"journal":{"name":"Victims & Offenders","volume":"18 1","pages":"51 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46957686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2136319
S. Merken, Danielle C. Slakoff, Wendy Aujla, Lauren Moton
ABSTRACT To date, very little is known about intimate partner violence (IPV) service providers’ experiences serving trans and immigrant women (IPV) survivors and their barriers in reporting and/or accessing formal services. Employing constructivist grounded theory, two vignettes were constructed – one featuring a trans woman and the other an immigrant woman, both seeking IPV services. American and Canadian IPV service providers responded to open-ended survey questions about both scenarios, resulting in several emergent themes including, but not limited to: service provider biases, shelter conflicts, and distrust of systems. Policy implications and future research are also addressed.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2149649
Sarah A. Rogers, Deena A. Isom, Nicole E. Rader
ABSTRACT This study examines fear of victimization (FOV) among lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer (LGBQ), and (T)ransgender college and university students across the US. We expand the FOV literature by examining the relationship between fear and both gender and sexual identities across racial and ethnic lines among college and university students in the US. We find that being a transgender or non-binary (NB) student is significantly associated with FOV, as well as being an LGBQ student. In addition, Black trans/NB students and Black LGBQ non-trans students are both roughly 11 times more likely than their counterparts to report FOV. Being trans/NB matters; it is an independent identity from one’s sexuality, and it operates differently across race and ethnicity.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2159597
Cooper A. Maher, Brittany E. Hayes
ABSTRACT Despite the growth in literature examining fear of cybercrime, few studies have examined altruistic fear online. Additionally, few studies have examined ransomware fear, potentially limiting the effectiveness of fear reduction policies. Using randomly assigned vignettes administered to online samples (n = 428; 432), findings indicate that perceptions of disorder were associated with increased personal fear, yet were not associated with altruistic ransomware fear. Social cohesion was associated with altruistic fear, yet was not associated with personal fear. Findings demonstrate the need for fear reduction policies to acknowledge the multifaceted nature of fear and adapt explanatory models to online contexts.
{"title":"Examining Personal and Altruistic Fear of Ransomware","authors":"Cooper A. Maher, Brittany E. Hayes","doi":"10.1080/15564886.2022.2159597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2159597","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the growth in literature examining fear of cybercrime, few studies have examined altruistic fear online. Additionally, few studies have examined ransomware fear, potentially limiting the effectiveness of fear reduction policies. Using randomly assigned vignettes administered to online samples (n = 428; 432), findings indicate that perceptions of disorder were associated with increased personal fear, yet were not associated with altruistic ransomware fear. Social cohesion was associated with altruistic fear, yet was not associated with personal fear. Findings demonstrate the need for fear reduction policies to acknowledge the multifaceted nature of fear and adapt explanatory models to online contexts.","PeriodicalId":47085,"journal":{"name":"Victims & Offenders","volume":"210 1","pages":"1236 - 1258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73973473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2159596
Y. Bodryzlova, A. Lemieux, A. Crocker
ABSTRACT At the beginning of the pandemic, experts expected an increasing number of hospitalizations in forensic settings, uncontrollable outbreaks of COVID-19, and deterioration of mental health of residents within institutions. Certain publications corroborated these concerns; however, no synthesis of the results of empirical publications at the initial stage of the pandemic has yet been conducted. Three rapid reviews were conducted on these topics. Besides almost a two-fold decrease in the total number of urgent consultations/hospitalizations, there were no changes in the number of involuntary hospitalizations, suicide attempts, and psychoses. The COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates in secure institutions were compatible with the general population. However, the lockdown period was associated with a significant increase in self-harm in secure settings.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-23DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2022.2133034
J. Viglione, Jennifer H. Peck, Joanna D. Frazier
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic instantly changed the day-to-day practices of the criminal justice system. The court system, traditionally reliant on face-to-face interaction, had to quickly alter operations to decrease the virus’ spread while remaining functional as an integral role in the criminal justice system. The current exploratory study examines the response strategies U.S. court systems implemented, impacts on case processing, case backlogs, and additional consequences endured due to the pandemic. Using responses from self-report surveys of court staff (e.g., judges, clerks), results indicated that courts prioritized the types of cases heard and implemented multiple mitigation strategies that were deemed effective, some of which may be sustainable post-pandemic. Despite an increase in virtual jury trials and hearings, many courts saw a surge in backlogged cases and complications in assembling juries. The overall findings may inform judiciary policy and practice concerning short and long-term pandemic outcomes on court processing and future pandemic preparedness.
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