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Abstract
Little research has been conducted to explore the impact of intersectionality among racial/ethnic minority groups and sexual/gender minority groups as it relates to violent, sexual, and stalking victimization risk. Using minority stress theory and routine activities-lifestyle exposure theory as a guide, the current study seeks to add to the literature by identifying risk factors for violent, sexual, and stalking victimization among a national sample of college students, while also exploring the intersections of race/ethnicity and sexual/gender minority status and how they may influence risk. Findings show that being a LGBTQ + student increases victimization risk similarly for White students and racial/ethnic minority students. There are differences and similarities across victimization risk factors among these groups.
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1 When describing other literature examining these groups, the terminology used by the authors of each study was used and/or identified.
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Katelyn P. Hancock
Katelyn P. Hancock is a doctoral teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Tennessee Tech University and her master’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Her research interests are in the area of victimization, primarily polyvictimization, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. Her most recent publications are collaborations with faculty, appearing in Journal of Criminal Justice Education and Journal of Interpersonal Violence. She was awarded the UTC Graduate School 2019 Outstanding Master’s Student in Criminal Justice Award and the 2020 Criminal Justice and Criminology Graduate Student Leadership Award at GSU.
Leah E. Daigle
Leah E. Daigle is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her most recent research has centered on recurring victimization, sexual victimization of college women, and the development and continuation of victimization across the life course. She is coauthor of Criminals in the Making: Criminality Across the Life Course (2nd ed.) and Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women, which was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and author of Victimology: A Text/Reader (2nd ed.) and Victimology: The Essentials (2nd ed.). Her research has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Justice Quarterly, Victims and Offenders, The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and The Journal of Interpersonal Violence. She was awarded the 2014 Andrew Young School of Policy of Studies Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2020 Division of Victimology of the American Society of Criminology’s Bonnie S. Fisher Career Award.