TY - JOUR
T1 - College Student Reporting Responses to Hypothetical and Actual Safety Concerns
AU - Hollister, Brandon A.
AU - Scalora, Mario J.
AU - Hoff, Sarah M.
AU - Hodges, Heath J.
AU - Marquez, Allissa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - Campus violence prevention often includes proactively reducing crime through noticing and resolving concerning situations. Within these efforts, interventions aimed at enhancing reporting have been considered necessary. The current study explored several reporting influences on college students’ responses to hypothetical and actual campus safety concerns. Students were unwilling to report most (i.e., 52%) vignettes of pathway behavior, and most students who witnessed campus safety concerns did not report (i.e., 87%). Students who witnessed several concerning behaviors from a nonfriend perpetrator tended to be more willing to report, especially if personally victimized and understanding the violence risk associated with pathway behavior. Analyses supported campus-wide exhibitions of the dangerousness of various pathway behaviors and the fair, flexible authority problem solving available to struggling students.
AB - Campus violence prevention often includes proactively reducing crime through noticing and resolving concerning situations. Within these efforts, interventions aimed at enhancing reporting have been considered necessary. The current study explored several reporting influences on college students’ responses to hypothetical and actual campus safety concerns. Students were unwilling to report most (i.e., 52%) vignettes of pathway behavior, and most students who witnessed campus safety concerns did not report (i.e., 87%). Students who witnessed several concerning behaviors from a nonfriend perpetrator tended to be more willing to report, especially if personally victimized and understanding the violence risk associated with pathway behavior. Analyses supported campus-wide exhibitions of the dangerousness of various pathway behaviors and the fair, flexible authority problem solving available to struggling students.
KW - Campus threat assessment
KW - community policing
KW - reporting improvement interventions
KW - violence prevention
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U2 - 10.1080/15388220.2015.1129498
DO - 10.1080/15388220.2015.1129498
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84969268078
SN - 1538-8220
VL - 16
SP - 331
EP - 348
JO - Journal of School Violence
JF - Journal of School Violence
IS - 4
ER -