‘High-jinks’ and ‘minor mischief’: a study of undergraduate students as perpetrators of crime

Selwyn, Neil

doi:10.1080/03075070701794759

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“…Few students (2%) in one United States college sample reported being intimated with a weapon on campus (Miller, Hemenway, & Wechsler, 2002). Regarding harassing behaviors, the NCVS indicated 4% of 20 to 24 year-olds reported being harassed in the past year (Catalano, 2012), and these rates appear descriptive for most college student samples (Buhi et al, 2009;Selwyn, 2008). Harassing situations often include damaging property of a target, and in the NCVS approximately 13 property crimes per 100 participants per year were observed (Rand & Robinson, 2011).…”

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“…In comparison to the general adult population, college students are typically less experienced in romantic and vocational roles (Roisman, Masten, Coatsworth, & Tellegen, 2004;Sneed, Hamagami, McArdle, Cohen, & Chen, 2007) and may encounter challenges due to converging life transitions (Arnett, 2000). These students tend to have fewer responsibilities and greater support for minor misconduct (e.g., binge drinking, illicit substance use; Selwyn, 2008) and often reside on or near large open campus grounds allowing independence and freedom necessary to confront adversaries (Scalora et al, 2010). Thus, in comparison to other environments (e.g., primary/secondary schools, general community populations), college students may be more holistically destabilized by triggering events due to less-defined self-perceptions (Arnett, 2000;Sneed et al, 2007) and may cope ineffectively with this stress through widely-obtainable and socially-supported ineffective coping mechanisms (e.g., substance abuse).…”

Section: Addressing Remaining Questions About Pre-incident Behaviormentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The frequency of pre-incident behaviors in the general campus population remains uninvestigated (Gisburne, 2003;Meloy, Hoffmann, Roshdi, Glaz-Ocik, & Guldimann, 2014), which has related to assertions that pre-incident behaviors are common, not predictive of subsequent violence, and likely to subject non-dangerous students to unnecessary police attention (Gisburne, 2003;Goodwin, 2014). The impact of threat assessment procedures on general campus violence have not been explored, which corresponds with potentially unwarranted resource competitions between campus targeted violence, sexual assault (Paul & Gray, 2011), stalking (Buhi, Clayton, & Surrency, 2009), and general crime (Selwyn, 2008) prevention efforts. The reporting decisions of pre-incident observers have received limited review (Hollister, Scalora, Hoff, & Marquez, 2014b;Sulkowski, 2011), despite several campus attacks occurring partly due to bystanders failing to extend pre-incident concerns to authorities (Drysdale et al, 2010;Scalora et al, 2010).…”

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Scalora²

2015

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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a b s t r a c tRecord reviews of public figure, primary/secondary school, and workplace threateners and attackers displayed the importance of noticing pre-incident behaviors and intervening to prevent violence. General crime prevention strategies did not appear applicable. Similarly, campus threat assessment research has considered targeted violence as distinctive and unable to be reviewed within general collegiate samples, which has related to questions about the prevalence, predictiveness, applicability, and reporting of pre-incident behaviors. This article applies general criminological and crime prevention findings to these questions and presents campus threat assessment methodologies informed by these fields. With college student surveys, pre-incident behaviors have appeared predictive of general physical assault, which promotes investigation of the generalizability of campus threat assessment across collegiate bullying, intimate partner, stalking, and workplace violence concerns. In college student surveys, the majority of observed pre-incident behavior has not been reported to campus authorities and has been impacted by students' personal victimization, assessment of dangerousness, and relationship with the perpetrator. Efforts to enhance reporting in general criminological and crime prevention fields could be applied to improving pre-incident authority notification. Thus, viewing campus threat assessment within the broader violence prevention framework can advance the efficiency, effectiveness, and applicability of the approach.

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“…Allinson, 2006;Selwyn, 2008;Munro, Turok, & Livingston, 2009). Leeds and its universities have embraced the image of a city supporting a lively leisure scene.…”

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Living with the consequences of policy decisions: reactions to student lifestyles in the neighbourhood

Long

2016

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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A national (UK) policy to expand higher education has changed the demographic composition of communities in many university towns and cities and the social forces operating thereon. As the economy and services adapt, those already resident in such areas may be quite comfortable accommodating the changes. Those who are not may leave (exit/flight) or stay and either 'hunker down' (loyalty) or act to protect what it was they had come to value about the area (voice). The case examined here is that of a part of Leeds where the consequent 'studentification' prompted the exit of many residents, thereby making way for further students. Some residents, with strong roots in the area, remained loyal and it is their views, along with those of business people, councillors and others, that are examined in this paper. This study of reactions to student lifestyles was initially prompted by Cohen's notion of 'moral panic' that gradually revealed a contestation over the right to determine the character, the soul, of the area. In so doing it considers how, as soft or symbolic power ebbed, attempts were made by local residents to shape a policy response. However, in that arena too, the locus of control is shown to be elusive.

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“…Some have students as cultural investors (Midgley, 2002), presenting planning strategies to rejuvenate neighbourhoods. According to Allinson (2006), the most cited negative impact of student populations was their lifestyles, namely their preference for excessive noise, drunkenness and late nights (Allinson, 2006;Russo, Van den Berg, Lavanga, 2007;Selwyn, 2008) and the establishment of fast-food takeaways and off-licences selling cheap alcohol that come to dominate the shopping streets (Harris et al (2002). In a neighbourhood that experiences a high concentration of students, there are usually no attempts from the students to interact with their neighbours (Hubbard, 2006).…”

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Studentification in Bloemfontein, South Africa

Ackermann

Visser

2016

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Abstract. Studentification is a global phenomenon that has been prominent in urban geographical discourse since the large-scale expansion of higher education in the early 1990s. In many developed and developing world countries, expansion in student enrolment has outstripped the ability of institutions of higher learning to provide adequate accommodation. Similar trends have been recorded in South Africa. The task of this paper is to investigate studentification as experienced in one of South Africa's secondary cities. The paper draws attention to the economic, socio-cultural, and physical characteristics of this form of student housing on host locations. It is argued that studentification holds both positive and negative impacts for the host communities of Bloemfontein. Finally, it is suggested that studentification in South Africa requires greater research attention.

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‘High-jinks’ and ‘minor mischief’: a study of undergraduate students as perpetrators of crime

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

Broadening campus threat assessment beyond mass shootings

Broadening campus threat assessment beyond mass shootings

Living with the consequences of policy decisions: reactions to student lifestyles in the neighbourhood

Studentification in Bloemfontein, South Africa

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