RT Article
T1 Sexual Violence Among Sorority Women: Victimization Experiences, Contexts, and Disclosure
JF Violence against women
VO 29
IS 6/7
SP 1123
OP 1143
A1 Hoxmeier, Jill C.
A1 O’Connor, Julia
A1 McMahon, Sarah
A2 O’Connor, Julia
A2 McMahon, Sarah
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/184324702X
AB The purpose of this study was to examine and compare sexual violence (SV) victimization among sorority women and unaffiliated counterparts. Results showed sorority women were more likely than unaffiliated women to report experiencing some types of SV, consuming alcohol prior to victimization, and to identify their perpetrator as a hookup/casual partner. More women, regardless of affiliation, informally disclosed their victimization compared to formally reporting; many did not tell anyone because they did not think it was serious enough. The findings point to implications for harm reduction, bystander intervention, and primary prevention programming, as well as institutional policy to address SV.
K1 Reporting
K1 Perpetrators
K1 Victimization
K1 sorority women
K1 Sexual Violence
DO 10.1177/10778012221108417