Do Party Schools Report Higher Rates of Violence Against Women in Their Clery Data? A Latent Class Analysis
Wiersma-Mosley J.D.; Willis M.; Jozkowski K.N.; Cleveland M.J.
2020
Violence Against Women
2
10.1177/1077801219840436
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. © The Author(s) 2019.
Clery data; Greek life; latent class analysis; party schools; violence against women
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