Dangerous Liaisons: The Role of Hookups and Heavy Episodic Drinking in College Sexual Victimization

Testa, Maria; Livingston, Jennifer A.; Wang, Weijun

doi:10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-18-00075

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“…Similarly, studies have found that individuals who had engaged in risky sexual behavior (e.g., having multiple sexual partners, unprotected sex, and sexually permissive attitudes) were significantly more likely to be sexually victimized (MacGreene & Navarro, 1998;Monks et al, 2010;Testa et al, 2010). The intensity of sexual victimization may be exacerbated by the consumption of alcohol and/or drugs (by the offender or victim, or both) (Corbin et al, 2001;Jaffe et al, 2020;Testa et al, 2019).…”

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The Victim–Offender Overlap in Sexual Offending: Exploring a Community-Based Sample of Young Adults in Hong Kong

Chan

2020

Sex Abuse

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This study examines the overlap between sexual offending perpetration and victimization among 1,171 participants (18–40 years) in Hong Kong. Testing the theoretical propositions of several criminological theories (i.e., self-control, general strain, routine activity, and social learning), the participants’ prevalence of general, penetrative, and nonpenetrative sexual offending perpetration and victimization are explored. The findings indicated that sexual offending perpetration and victimization are generally positively correlated, and further tests using multivariate analyses confirmed the relationship between these two experiences. Less than 5% of the sample had both sexual offending perpetration and victimization experience. The results of logistic regression indicated that participants who engaged in sexual offending were 1.67 times more likely to fall prey to sexual victimization. Similar odds ratio (1.67 times) was true for sexual victimization in predicting sexual offending perpetration. A bivariate probit model confirmed the sexual victim–offender overlap, with the Spearman’s rho correlation from the unadjusted model suggesting significant overlap with general sexual offending (79%). Having a high level of risky sexual behavior was found to be a general risk factor for engaging in sexual offending behavior and for falling prey to sexual victimization.

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The Victim–Offender Overlap in Sexual Offending: Exploring a Community-Based Sample of Young Adults in Hong Kong

Chan

2020

Sex Abuse

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“…At the same time, when researchers attempt to identify the pathway by which alcohol and substance use increase the likelihood of sexual violence victimization, the results are nuanced with mediating variables such as hook-ups (Testa et al, 2019) and number of consensual sexual partners (Franklin, 2010). The relationship between campus parties, alcohol and substance use, hooking up, and sexual assault has also been analyzed at the institutional level, with one study finding that sexual assault is “a predictable outcome” of campus partying culture (Armstrong et al, 2006, p. 483).…”

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The Red Zone Risk for College Sexual Assault: A Critical Review of the Literature

Follingstad

Barczak

Kistler

2022

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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The term Red Zone refers to a period of time thought to be high risk for sexual victimization upon entering college in the United States, although empirical evidence for a defined Red Zone has not been established. This article critically reviews empirical research from the last 20 years that investigates the temporality of sexual assault reported by undergraduate women. A keyword search of three major sociopsychological databases was conducted, and articles were included if they reported original empirical results of the timing of sexual assault on campuses, if they directly compared different class years, or if they reported on sexual assault by class year. Ten articles meeting criteria were evaluated in light of methodological, definitional, and measurement issues to assess whether support for a Red Zone of risk exists. We posit that the current extant literature does not provide clear empirical support for the concept of a Red Zone at the beginning of a woman’s entry into college and lasting for the first month or two. However, extending the potential time frame for a Red Zone to include college women’s first and second years has some merit, although the usefulness of considering half of a woman’s college career as high risk for sexual violence is questioned. Importantly, investigations into the temporality of campus sexual assault (CSA) would benefit from the inclusion of multiple other risk factors as potential mediators/moderators to understand whether identifying a particular time frame is useful or whether social contexts and risk factors explain the significance of an identified time frame.

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“…They may be increasingly excluded from healthier social groups and gravitate towards others with more chaotic and even antisocial behaviour, placing them in situations where victimisation is more likely. Research has indicated that both heavy‐episodic drinking and greater association with deviant peers are risk factors for victimisation (Litherland et al., 2021; Testa et al., 2019; Vézina et al., 2011; Wojciechowski, 2022). Because alcohol‐related disorders are positively associated with both (Coder et al., 2009; Jenkins et al., 2011; Miranda et al., 2013; Sloan et al., 2011), there is a potential that either or both mediate the relationship between alcohol dependence and victimisation.…”

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Understanding the link between alcohol dependence and victimisation risk: Is risk explained by peers or alcohol behaviours?

Wojciechowski

2023

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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Background Alcohol dependence is a risk factor for experiencing victimisation, but little is known about how peer and behavioural mechanisms may explain this relationship. Aims To test deviant peer association and/or heavy‐episodic drinking frequency as mediators between alcohol dependence and risk for being victimised. Methods The Pathways to Desistance data were analysed. Generalised structural equation modelling was used to determine whether either or both of the hypothesised pathways significantly mediated the relationship between alcohol dependence and victimisation. Results Alcohol dependence at recruitment (age 14–17) was associated with higher odds of being a victim of some form of violence in Wave 3 (age x–y). This relationship was significantly mediated by deviant peer association but not heavy‐episodic drinking frequency between Waves 2 and 3. Conclusions These findings add knowledge about the mechanism of a link between early alcohol dependence and later violent victimisation among young offenders. They suggest that more focus on reducing delinquent peer association, or reducing its impact, is crucial to reducing further harms to these young people, in turn possibly affecting continuing substance use and reoffending risks. Peer mentoring programmes help to provide prosocial modelling and reduce deviant peer ties in some circumstances, and these findings suggest that the next step should be their evaluation specifically among justice‐involved young people with alcohol dependence. Providing additional funding and/or opportunities for involvement in such mentoring programmes may help to reduce the public health and financial costs associated with alcohol dependence in the juvenile justice system.

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Dangerous Liaisons: The Role of Hookups and Heavy Episodic Drinking in College Sexual Victimization

Cited by 13 publications

References 69 publications

The Victim–Offender Overlap in Sexual Offending: Exploring a Community-Based Sample of Young Adults in Hong Kong

The Victim–Offender Overlap in Sexual Offending: Exploring a Community-Based Sample of Young Adults in Hong Kong

The Red Zone Risk for College Sexual Assault: A Critical Review of the Literature

Understanding the link between alcohol dependence and victimisation risk: Is risk explained by peers or alcohol behaviours?

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