Intimate Partner Stalking among College Students: Examining Situational Contexts Related to Police Notification
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Intimate Partner Stalking among College Students: Examining Situational Contexts Related to Police Notification Megan Bears Augustyn 1
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Callie Marie Rennison 2 & Gillian M. Pinchevsky 3 & Amy B. Magnuson 4
Published online: 12 December 2019 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract A nontrivial percentage of men and women report being stalked in their lifetime, and many of these experiences were perpetrated by a current or former intimate partner. This study seeks to better understand the situational contexts of this social phenomenon among a high-risk population - college students - and explores how elements of the situational context of intimate partner stalking relate to police notification.Using data from college students attending 24 universities in the United States, logistic regression analyses are supplemented with conjunctive analyses of case configurations (CACC), which allow for the construction of situational contexts of intimate partner stalking and a comparison of contexts that are and are not reported to the police.Overall, police notification for intimate partner stalking is low (6%). Logistic regression analyses revealed that multiple types of stalking victimization and interference with activities are related to an increased likelihood of police notification. CACC indicated that the relevance of interference with activities is dependent upon self-reporting that the victimization resulted in an intimidating environment. Furthermore, multiple types of stalking victimizations and co-occurring victimizations (i.e., physical violence, sexual violence, and coercive control) are related to police notification if the victim also reports interference with activities and an intimidating environment. These relationships are driven by White, non-Hispanic women who live offcampus.Our dual analytical approach highlights the complementary use of traditional regression methods and CACC. These results provide insight for efforts to assist victims of intimate partner stalking in order to encourage police notification. Keywords Intimate partner stalking . Police notification . Conjunctive analysis . College victimization . Help-seeking
Intimate Partner Stalking among College Students: Examining Situational Contexts Related to Police Notification Given the advancing realm of the cyberworld, the scope and nature of stalking as well as its prevalence and consequences has broadened significantly in the past decade and a half (Belknap and Sharma 2014: 186; see also Parsons-Pollard * Megan Bears Augustyn [email protected] 1
The University of Texas at San Antonio, 501 W. Cesar Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, Texas, USA
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The University of Colorado Denver, 201 Larimer St, Denver, Colorado, USA
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Florida State University, 600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
and Moriarty 2009). Stalking is described as a pattern of unwanted attention and contact that creates uncertainty, i
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